I emerged openoffice-ximian, compiles fine, but when I type xoowriter for example, X gets killed immediatetly and takes me back to console. I then have to type startx again to get back to a gui. This happen every time I try to start an openoffice-ximian application Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge openoffice-ximian 2.xoowriter, xooffice 3. Actual Results: X gets killed Expected Results: start openoffice application Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-nitro4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-nitro4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec 16 2004, 08:50:27)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r2, 1.6.3, 1.9.4, 1.5, 1.7.9 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r3 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://twmlinux.raleigh.ibm.com/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://dsse.con.can.ibm.com/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://dsse.con.can.ibm.com/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aalib alsa audiofile avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bzlib cdr divx4linux dvdr encode f77 fortran gif gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl pam png python readline sdl slang sse ssl svg svga tcpd truetype truetype-fonts xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
Which graphics card are you using? Did you do a driver update recently (maybe without rebooting)? What you also could do is to run opengl-update again.
I have a Sager 8890 laptop. video is VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]. I emerged the latest xorg-x11 yesterday. I also have the following, wasnt sure how to handle it. emerge -p world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] <media-video/ati-drivers-8.8.25-r3 (from pkg x11-base/opengl-update-2.1_pre3) [ebuild N ] x11-base/opengl-update-2.1_pre3 [ebuild NS ] media-video/ati-drivers-8.8.25-r3 [ebuild NS ] media-video/ati-drivers-extra-8.8.25
That's most likely the problem, the older version of ati-drivers you seem to have installed does not work with the current xorg-release anymore. Try to emerge -C ati-drivers then emerge ati-drivers (which should also emerge the newer opengl-update) after that run opengl-update
That resolved the problem. Thanks for the help, sorry to inconvenience you. Thanks, again
No problem :) Closing
