nvidia-drivers wants to rebuild infinitely [fixed]

danomac · Last edited by danomac on Sat May 30, 2015 1:14 am; edited 2 times in total

I have an older GT240 in my htpc, and I've just went through the emul-linux transition.

I upgraded nvidia-drivers, and to my discovery, udev hangs processing events. I discovered that my card is no longer supported >340.76.

So I installed nvidia-drivers-340.76 (masking newer versions) and of course it relies on the emul-linux libs. It continually wanted me to emerge @preserved-rebuild, so I removed the offending files and that message has gone.

The issue still remains, as revdep-rebuild still wants to continually rebuild nvidia-drivers.

It appears all cards below 5xx (?) has been dropped in versions >340, so is there any way to fix this issue? I am not going to buy a $100 video card when there's nothing wrong with the one I have.

Is it possible to force unmask the emul-linux libraries it needs?

eccerr0r · Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 4:35 pm Post subject:

Since that ebuild isn't in the repository, you're on your own. I'd submit a bug for the devs to remove the dependency on emul-linux if it had been an official ebuild.

Have you tried the OSS nouveau driver? It's not great but seems to do its job on my nvidia boards. Granted these boards don't see much 3d action.
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danomac · Posted: Fri May 29, 2015 4:39 pm Post subject:

Aaand I'm an idiot. I meant 340.76, it's still in the tree. Damn typos. I'll open a bug later. Some of the cards not supported by the new driver versions are only 3-4 years old.

Edit: Bug filed.

danomac · Posted: Sat May 30, 2015 1:13 am Post subject:

Fixed it!

revdep-rebuild told me the offending library and I discovered it's sys-libs/zlib.

During the transition from emul-*, portage missed sys-libs/zlib as one of the packages that needed abi_x86_32, and it was compiled without it.

I've set abi_x86_32 for sys-libs/zlib, recompiled it, and re-merged nvidia-drivers, and all is happy with the world now.

I've made a note on the bug, maybe this dependency can be added to the ebuild so this doesn't happen to others.