Problem with Rawhide Kernels > 610

[Michael A. Peters]

On 10/22/2004 01:45:24 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 04:46:34PM -0400, Alex Ackerman wrote:
> 
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>  > I am having a problem booting my Rawhide system after the latest
> round of
>  > updates. The system will not boot beyond "Configuring kernel
> parameters: ".
> 
> This sounds like the recent X/rhgb bug. Remove rhgb from the boot
> command line, and see if it solves the problem.  If so, update
> your xorg/rhgb packages, and it should be fixed.

The problem is probably xfree86 - and thus by extension rhgb.
You can probably boot without rhgb - but you probably can't get X going  
(and that's why rhgb fails)

[mpeters at devel ~]$ ldd /usr/bin/rhgb
        libvte.so.4 => /usr/lib/libvte.so.4 (0x03450000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x038c6000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x0085e000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x00844000)
        libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x00994000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x006c8000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x008ab000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x007a1000)
        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x00956000)
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0  
(0x009d6000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00960000)
        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0  
(0x00c8c000)
        libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x009ba000)
        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0  
(0x00914000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x0069d000)
        libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0  
(0x00988000)
        libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0x009a8000)
        libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x00d2d000)
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0  
(0x00868000)
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0  
(0x008a6000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x006c2000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x007b3000)
        libpopt.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0 (0x00d65000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00574000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00791000)
        libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x00935000)
        libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x009b5000)
        libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x0092b000)
        libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXinerama.so.1  
(0x0098f000)
        libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x00cfa000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0055b000)
        libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0  
(0x00d05000)
[mpeters at devel ~]$

Am I the only one bothered by that many dependencies in something that  
is used as the system boots?