Hello I recently updated my gentoo system by reinstalling everything from sratch. First I tryed the package called xorg-x11. It compiled and installed fine, but then, when I wanted to start the Xserver, I got following message:
Duplicate symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a:bitmapmod.so
Also defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a

What can I do about this? I do'n t really understand what happened here, becaues my previous system worked fine (with almost the same version of xfree). The other strange thing is, this error occurs with BOTH xorg-x11 AND xfree86.

Any hints?

Thanks

raven

I have the same issue if I find a fix I will post it here. I am serching google now

hello

I already found a solution. I used hardened sources, thats wat made my system stop working. So, i switched back to default and now it runs fine.

G

raven

Yes you have you X GUI back up, but not with the best slution. The howto says that USE=dlloader will not work with nVidia or ATI drivers, but the patch is step 2 and 3 is a fix for this. I have hardened + xorg + nVidia.
Now that is a fix!

0. Read http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/hardenedxorg.xml

1. Goto http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64618

2. Get the xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1.ebuild.diff patch

3. cp patch to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-x11/

4. mkdir /mnt/backup; cd /mnt/backup; tar -cvjf dev.tar.bz2 /dev

5. type patch -nu xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1.ebuild xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1.ebuild.diff

6. type USE=dlloader ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1.ebuild

Hi guys,

I find the same problem when I trie to install Gentoo+hardened+Fluxbox. In the end of my search, I found this site which has a solution. This is working to me.

http://lwn.net/Articles/106214/

In bottom of this page have a post of an user.

I hope this help you too !!