Apparently, though unproven, at 14:01 on Tuesday 26 October 2010, Iain Buchanan did opine thusly:
> On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 11:18 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0930 > > schrieb Iain Buchanan <iai...@netspace.net.au>: > > > > [...] > > > > > Someone posted recently about an upgrade that affected him (looking... > > > can't find it). He downgraded to fix it, but it wasn't nvidia or x > > > from memory. Sorry for being vague, I'll keep looking. > > > > Ah, I seem to remember the problem was/is mesa 7.8.2 being slow, in which > > case a downgrade helped. Was that it? I can't find the thread myself > > right now, though. > > That's it! mesa tinka yousa system broken! 7.8.2 down to 7.7.1 worked > for the OP: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/234610 > > "Preventing a package from being updated" Can someone who hit this and cured it describe the symptoms seen? I might have the same issue but it's a lot of rebuilding. I might just be suffering from the recent 2.6.33 - 2.6.35 IO issues. Throw stuff at wall doesn't strike me as an effective troubleshooting method :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
