Bug 113837

Summary:	gamin requires fam to be both installed and removed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Max Barry <max>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-379627.html
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Description Max Barry 2005-11-28 12:50:22 UTC

Simply installing gamin (as recommended) instead of fam doesn't seem to work:
gam_server never gets started. You need to install fam first, but because it's a
blocker for gamin, you then need to remove it again. THEN you can emerge gamin.

You also need to resist the urge to remove the leftover files once fam is
unemerged, such as /etc/init.d/famd.

I know this is a problem on AMD64; not sure about other arches.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-01 10:31:32 UTC

Works fine here with just installing gamin from the start.  Not sure how you did
it or what to suggest to get to the bottom of the issue .. maybe elaborating on
how exactly you did the setup would help.

Comment 2 Max Barry 2005-12-01 14:10:36 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)

Yeah, sorry, I think I was wrong about this. I know there are a couple of people
with this problem (gamin not working), but what I thought was the solution
(installing & removing fam) turned out not to be.

The relevent forum thread is here:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-379627.html

Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-02 00:26:52 UTC

Try to remerge gnome-vfs and nautilus.

Comment 4 Max Barry 2005-12-02 10:35:31 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> Try to remerge gnome-vfs and nautilus.

Did that, and now it works. Excellent, thanks.