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Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk> posted |
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200704172320.30437.prh@××××××××××.uk, excerpted below, on Tue, 17 Apr |
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2007 23:20:30 +0100: |
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> Ok, I'll take it up in the morning - too tired to think straight |
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> tonight. |
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LOL. I can identify with that! I wonder how many other geeks regularly |
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literally doze off at the computer, then after waking do a bit and find |
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they've dozed off again, repeat several times and either give up and find |
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the bed, or find it's time to go to work and they haven't properly slept |
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/at/ /all/? |
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> Thanks for your findings. |
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Yeah, sometimes you just need to know if someone else is seeing the same |
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thing, or if it's just an artifact on a single installation. Knowing |
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either way can sure help. =8^) |
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You didn't mention whether you actually had portaudio merged or not, but |
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I assume so. In any case, that the equery is causing a traceback when |
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it's NOT merged (as well as that it's happening on multiple systems) |
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doubly points to a problem in either portage or gentoolkit, not just an |
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individual case of database corruption or the like. |
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I regularly check the bugs listed in the portage changelogs, and have |
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seen a number of "traceback" style bugs resolved. I love the way ZMedico |
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comments on the bugs, leaving a trail even those (like me) who don't "do |
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code" that much/well can follow reasonably well. While following portage |
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bugs for me began as a typical sysadmin core component update |
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cautiousness, it has become somewhat of a minor hobby in its own right, |
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as following the bugs and their resolution is simply /interesting/! =8^) |
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This one (tho it's gentoolkit not portage per se, might be portage's bug |
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tho, we'll see) is particularly interesting, because unlike many/most of |
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the traceback bugs I've seen, it doesn't appear to be a bug in dealing |
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with unexpectedly corrupt data, but rather in the code itself, given it |
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occurs even here, with the package in question not merged. Thus it has |
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the potential of being doubling interesting to see the problem actually |
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traced down and fixed, what happened, why, and what can be done to fix it. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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