Blocked Package: xorg-drivers-* vs xf86-video-virtua{SOLVED}

kkinkouu · Last edited by kkinkouu on Fri Mar 17, 2017 9:21 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi Guys,

Has anyone run into this problem below? and if so, what would you recommend in solving these conflicts.

Conflict 1. [blocks b ] x11-plugins/enigmail ("x11-plugins/enigmail" is blocking mail-client/thunderbird-45.7.0)

--- This could be related to keying being installed? possibly, but i'm not sure.

kkinkouu · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 1:40 pm Post subject:

forgot to post my emerge --info, please see below:

fedeliallalinea · !<x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.1.14

xorg-1.19 need >x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.1.14, the solution is upgrade your virtualbox to version 5.1.14

kkinkouu · Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:54 pm Post subject:

@fedeliallalinea,

Thanks for the prompt response. I'll give this a go later to day and hopefully it should resolve the problem. Its a little unfortunate that the version of virtualbox is still in warning status.

Again thanks for getting back to me SO soon!

BHReach · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2012 Posts: 40

ct85711 · Veteran Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 1791

The reason why is it wanting to use an earlier version of virtualbox-extpack is because you don't have the full version correct, it should be 5.1.14.112924 instead of 5.1.14.

Otherwise, virtualbox-5.1.6 was put in portage on the 9th if you want to use that version. For that extpack, it should have this version 5.1.16.113841.

BHReach · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2012 Posts: 40

Thank you, that solves the problem.

engineermdr · Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 1:28 am Post subject:

I ran into this as well. This always seems to happen to those of us running stable systems when xorg-server changes version. Not only virtualbox, but tigervnc is bound to specific xorg versions, and those are still ~amd64. Would be nice if this was more coordinated, since I run a stable system to avoid situations like this.

kkinkouu · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 7:07 pm Post subject:

@engineermdr - i completely agree, i have to say its very annoying - still haven't got round to this i may downgrade to virtualbox 4.3.38 and see how that goes. virtualbox 5.0.32 "clearly isn't stable" with xorg-server.............

kkinkouu · Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 9:20 pm Post subject:

moved up to 5.1.14 and everything is working perfectly.

Again, thanks for the help @fedeliallalinea

Leio · Developer Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 494 Location: Estonia

There is some information flying around that you actually don't need xf86-video-virtualbox, but that since VBox 5.0, things should work nicely with the modesetting driver (as found inside xorg-server package itself). Those preferring to stick with 5.0 for now (as 5.1 has some other issues which is why it hasn't been moved to the stable version yet or something) might want to try that and report back. That is, doing this without xf86-video-virtualbox at all and seeing if it's same speed or whatnot.
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poxu · n00b Joined: 19 May 2017 Posts: 23

Hello,

I'm having exactly the same problem, except that I'm trying to install Gentoo in VirtualBox with Windwos as Host.
What did you mean when you were saying

solamour · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 12:07 am Post subject:

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21635

If you want to enable a specific version, but not stay on unstable indefinitely, you can use a version-qualified keyword change. To do so, change the entries in package.accept_keywords to:

solamour · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2017 7:46 pm Post subject: