Gentoo hates me?

nzer · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Auckland, NZ

hah.. it must be that Gentoo hates me. Been using Linux for a few years now, originally Debian. I decided.. about a year ago .. that Debian was too outdated and slow. I went on a hunt to find a new OS. I discovered Gentoo.. I think it was version 0.8 0.9 ? I dunno. It worked great.. I loved Gentoo then!

NOW.. to cut a long story short Gentoo had to be removed to the update to 1.4. So .. off i go start the install.. seg fault.. blah seg fault. OK I think. i'm running a Duron 600 at 1000.. thats probably the problem.

So now we get to this week.. I buy an Athlon XP 1800.. get given a new video card. No way Gentoo can escape from being installed again! BUT no.. KDE fails even with this new computer.. ON THE SAME THING.. kdelibs.

I can't think what is going wrong.. I guess it could be USE flags.. I use all the default ones except do -gnome -gtk. Could it be my motherboard.. HDD , (oh the RAM is new as well)

*sigh*.. if anyone can help me before I have to go and install Mandrake 9 I'll be very very grateful!

- Andrew

Rhiz()m3 · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2002 Posts: 41

The Answer to your KDE problems is:emerge nautilus2.

>nano -w ~/.xinitrc

comment out the call to start KDE if it exists.
add this line:
exec gnome-session

Then your KDE woes will be over.. :lol:

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nzer · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Auckland, NZ

yeah... kdelibs failed again just after i posted before.. i'm now trying gnome (only 59 bloody packages to download and compile)..

i'm going slightly mental but I might be calling mother to ask to borrow her XP disc.. NO no .. hah

mongrel · n00b Joined: 21 Nov 2002 Posts: 1

the kdelibs failure you described has been happing to a lot of people. look around the message board for similar errors. ( i have it too currently but haven't found a solution because finals are almost here)

nzer · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Auckland, NZ

hmm well others aren't getting segfaults.. mine always segfaults .. and at different places..

only 7 packages to go on Gnome install

rommel · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 3:23 am Post subject:

segfaults often are ram related...look at the your ram timings in the bios and make sure they arent agressive....sometime something simple like disabling interleave or going from 1T to 2T will do it.

i had only one issue with gnome ...it wasnt kde