612992 – xorg 1.19.* updates should pull in x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel update, otherwise incompatible ABI

Bug 612992 - xorg 1.19.* updates should pull in x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel update, otherwise incompatible ABI

Summary: xorg 1.19.* updates should pull in x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel update, other...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 600028

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2017-03-18 09:19 UTC by Nick
Modified:	2017-03-19 01:37 UTC (History)
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Description Nick 2017-03-18 09:19:15 UTC

Portage did not pull in an update to x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel when xorg 1.19 was marked stable and updated, causing X to fail to start due to ABI incompatibilities. Manually upgrading x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel fixed the problem.

Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2017-03-19 01:37:07 UTC

Yes, the reason is that VIDEO_CARDS="i965" does not depend on xf86-video-intel any more (with >=1.19 it depends on xorg-server[glamor] and uses the modesetting driver by default). Because xf86-video-intel is not required, it is not rebuilt, but then it's still installed so without emerge --depclean the xserver will try to load it, failing to start...

I'm not really sure how to handle that :(

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 600028 ***