A question about package.mask [Solved]

[batvink]

than you will need to put in the drivers also

yup, and that's exactly what i forgot.
So, now, after doing a upgrade, mouse AND keyboard suddenly don't work anymore.
At boottime i can select OS, but as soon as xorg is loaded......
don't know if it has anything to do with xorg., but i have three other OSes installed,
and there's no problem with mouse, nor keyboard,
I've chrooted into my Sabayon installation, as i type.. trying to fix the mess i made.
hopefully i can fix it.

Yes, Joost. i can hear you shout:
I TOLD YOU SO.........

[wolfden]

just downgrade the xorg via chroot or ssh than reboot and all be good

[dunsurfin]

So, now, after doing a upgrade, mouse AND keyboard suddenly don't work anymore.
At boottime i can select OS, but as soon as xorg is loaded......

This is probably nothing to do with masking, I have the same problem after yesterday's update.

viewtopic.php?f=76&t=26419&p=145569#p145569

[wolfden]

his is not the same story as yours, he masked xorg-server but not the drivers, so his drivers installed for xorg-server 1.10 but has xorg-server 1.11.3 installed, that will not work.

[batvink]

I fixed it.. pfew.
i had some more problems to deal with, first.
I'm on jfs filesystem, (/ and /home), and noticed after a "fsck.jfs -n" that the aggregate state is dirty, even though the file system appears clean., so i had to repair it first.
Then, mount the lvm volumes, and chrooted.
I removed the lines in "/etc/entropy/packages/package.mask" ,
and performed a upgrade.
xorg is downgraded to 1.10, and everything is back to normal....

[Fitzcarraldo]

Fitzcarraldo. Thank you for your reply. Fortunately I'm having no problem with my Thunderbird sound as I use the mailbox-alert add-on with the tonequilla add-on in case mailbox-alert fails.
It may be that these two packages no longer use esound but it's not causing any problems yet and I will leave it until it does.

Just for information, I installed Thunderbird 10.0.1 today and even the 'Use the following sound file' is now working, so the use of esound has been removed completely from Thunderbird. Thunderbird now uses libcanberra instead of esound for both the default sound and the user-selected sound file. (Perhaps this was already fixed in Thunderbird 10.0, but I leapfrogged that release.)

[dunsurfin]

Thanks for the information Fitzcarraldo but Thunderbird, as far as I know, just has a general alert for email whereas I prefer to have a separate sound for each folder. That may sound odd to some but it enables me to ignore unimportant emails and go to my PC if it's something important. If I can find a way of testing mailbox-alert and tonequilla without using esound but without removing it from my system I'd be happy to try that but .......... I've just thought that I could test it by renaming esound so I'm off to find what and where the files are that need renaming.

[dunsurfin]

Update; I renamed usr/bin/esd and usr/bin/esound-esd, rebooted and tested mailbox-alert. It works so I shall do a little more experimentation and then allow entropy to have it's own way (as usual). Thank you again Fitzcarraldo. As it appears there isn't an answer to my original question as to how to mask a package from being removed I shall mark this solved.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Good.

I'm quite pleased myself as, not only does this change to Thunderbird get rid of the use of the obsolete esound package, it fixes a limitation that esound had when playing a user-defined sound file: the duration of the sound was limited, so the sound from longer files was truncated (as mentioned in e.g. Dispel the mystery of Thunderbird’s mail sound!). I was previously using the well-known Monty Python's Holy Grail soundbite: Message for you, Sir!, but esound played the sound of the arrow and truncated the "Message for you, Sir" part. With the latest version of Thunderbird using libcanberra, the full sound clip plays in all its glory.

[dunsurfin]

I was previously using the well-known Monty Python's Holy Grail soundbite: Message for you, Sir!, but esound played the sound of the arrow and truncated the "Message for you, Sir" part. With the latest version of Thunderbird using libcanberra, the full sound clip plays in all its glory.

That has set me off and I'm now producing a soundbite from this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODshB09FQ8w