The machine dies when emerging xorg-x11 (or xorg-server)

Sigma Kappa · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2012 Posts: 45

Hi,
on my way tp gnome desktop I followed X Configuration HOWTO: set up KMS and issued USE="-doc -qt4 udev" emerge --newuse --update xorg-x11. The last step brought the machine to a shutdown after some 37 packages (out of the supposed-to-be-installed 168) have been installed. I repeated this step several times, with xorg-server in place of xorg-x11 -- no luck. The machine just shuts down on its own. And while we are here -- I added the |ine "x11-base/xorg-server -qt4 -doc udev" to /etc/portage/package.use -- why do I have to still use USE specification with emerge?
Thank you.

eccerr0r · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:03 pm Post subject:

I think the only way to get your machine to shutdown while building with emerge is probably your machine overheated or something to that extent. See in /var/log/emerge.log how far it got.

Can you underclock? Check your cooling?

As for the other issue, for global USE flags, you should stick USE=xxxxx in /etc/portage/make.conf (or /etc/make.conf on a legacy system). Then these USE flags will apply to all packages. If you put that particular line in /etc/portage/package.use, it only affects xorg-server, though there may be other packages that may need what you want... plus dependencies may cause problems.
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wcg · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2009 Posts: 588

You may not want "USE=-doc" to be a global USE flag, so keeping it
in /etc/portage/package.use (or /etc/portage/package.use/[category])
is probably wise.

You should not need to supply them in both package.use or make.conf
and on the emerge command line (ie as environment variable values
for that emerge command and any subprocesses that it creates).
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