Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge -eav system failed with ati-drivers

[John P. Burkett]

Drake Donahue wrote:
> <snip>
>
> I'm guessing you did an "emerge --depclean" sometime after compiling the
> 2.6.22-r2 kernel and after emerging a new gentoo-sources that erased
> your make files,
Drake, thank you very much for your comments.
Yes, I did an "emerge --depclean" around June 6.

 This is something depclean loves to do while leaving
> 99% of the older kernel source files intact.
> I think depclean leaves your .config file in place. Been a few weeks
> since I burned myself last with this one.
> If you were following directions back in 2007 you should have a
> stored 2.6.22-r2 config in the /boot directory.
Yes, doing "ls -l" in my /boot directory produces output including the
following lines:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      28 Sep  3  2007 config ->
config-2.6.22-gentoo-r2-osmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   42638 Sep 21  2006 config-2.6.17-ck1-r3-osmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   47220 Sep  3  2007 config-2.6.22-gentoo-r2-osmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   45522 Sep  3  2007 config-2.6.22-gentoo-r2-osmp.old
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      25 Sep  3  2007 config.failsafe ->
config-2.6.17-ck1-r3-osmp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      32 Sep  3  2007 config.old ->
config-2.6.22-gentoo-r2-osmp.old

>
> Try "emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2 to re-emerge the old
> package and regain the make files. What the osmp is about beats me.
In some contexts, osmp is short for Operational Security Management
Plan.  Whether that is the meaning here, I don't know.

Should I back up any particular files before doing "emerge
=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r2"?

Best regards,
John


>
> or
>
> Emerge a new gentoo-sources, eselect it, configure, compile, install a
> new (current) kernel.
>
>
>
>


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