Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 05 February 2007, Jed R. Mallen wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm doing an `emerge --update world`, but when it reaches xorg-server >> it halts with an error on this part: >> > > [snip] > > >> --- /usr/share/X11/xkb/ >> >> !!! Cannot write to '/usr/share/X11/xkb/compiled'. >> > > There's your error: That directory either doesn't exist or has dodgy > permissions. On my system it is a symlink to /var/lib/xkb, which > contains two files: > > .keep_x11-apps_xkbcomp-0 > README.compiled > > The README is an orphan and the .keep belongs to x11-apps/xkbcomp-1.0.3, > which compiles in something like 20 seconds. > > So, it'll be easiest to remerge xkbcomp to create the needed dir, then > continue with your world update > > alan > > >
And do you have something like this in your make.conf? > INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" Also make sure you have done a etc-update or dispatch.conf or what ever you use to update configs. It says that in the error too. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
