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Now that you explained more fully the situation and why and what led to your problems I understand some of your frustrations. Sometimes wanting to fix one thing leads to other complex issues. Maybe (being Gentoo-specific) would be first to build your toolchain (linux-headers, glibc, binutils,and gcc) to today's versions then a "emerge -e world" so all of your stuff will be new and compatable-(your original problem). All of this can be done in the background while you keep working. This is only one option. Feel free to use it or not. Sometimes I cuss the Gentoo devs for things they do that screws up my installs too. As to your kernel question as to "default" switches in Gentoo kernel I really don't think there are. Gen-kernel is one answer, but it never worked for me, I always had to get dirty with "make menuconfig". Hope you figure it out. Cheers
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@×××.com>
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:31:26
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To: <gentoo-desktop@l.g.o>
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Reply-to: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
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Cc: Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto<jmbsvicetto@g.o>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] System problems
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On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 00:37 -0100, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
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> As such, I would kindly like to ask everyone on this thread to "calm |
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> down" and to please try to reply in a respectful manner to any poster on |
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> this ml. |
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Thank you, Jorge. I will do so, going forward.
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> I have to agree with other posters in this ml that your tone when you |
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> started this thread asking for help wasn't the best one. |
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I was kinda freaked out. I depend on my desktop system for so many
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things in a day, and it's _way_ behind in updates, I know. I got pushed
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into a kernel update by a simple software mod, which required a perl
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update, which required that I run perl-cleaner, which has issues of its
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own, and somewhere along the way I ran into a dependency on a newer
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version of udev, which depended on a newer kernel, which I'd tried to
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install before with the same or similar problems. I couldn't make
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things work and had to resort to a rescue disk to back out. I felt
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cornered, and I guess my plea for help showed it.
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I actually have enough knowledge and experience with Linux that I can
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probably solve this problem myself if I approach it methodically with a
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clear head.
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> Thank you for the apology you've sent to the list about your tone. Let's |
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> try to move forward and see if / how we can help you. |
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I can eat crow with the best of 'em, Jorge.
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> PS - Lindsay, two last notes about your issue and your time constraints. |
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> This type of issue might be easier to diagnose on IRC (one good place is |
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> #gentoo in the freenode network) where a short intense session may prove |
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> to be quicker in the end. Also, I haven't seen anyone mention that the |
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> latest udev versions react *very* badly to CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2. |
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Ah! Thanks for the heads-up on this. This switch is _not_ on in my
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newer kernel, and doesn't exist in my older kernel. CONFIG_SYSFS,
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however, _is_ on as I assume it should be for /sys on which udev
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depends.
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I don't know why udev hasn't been completely integrated into kernel
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development. It's become so much a part of modern Linux and is so
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interdependent with the kernel. Yes, it's in user space, but so are
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other kernel hooks.
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> So be sure to check if you disable that as iirc udev will refuse to |
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> create the proper device nodes if that kernel option is active. |
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Question: There are switch and value dependencies in the kernel that
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are Gentoo specific, or specific to system configurations favored by
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Gentoo (similar to what you mentioned above). If I emerge a Gentoo
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kernel, are the default configuration options for that kernel set by
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Gentoo devs so as to build a kernel which will avoid these kinds of
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"gotchas"? In other words, if I build a gentoo kernel out of the box,
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as opposed to a vanilla kernel from kernel.org, do I gain an advantage
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with regard to possibly problematic configuration options on a fairly
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standard Gentoo system? I hope this makes sense.
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> PPS - If you decide to test our IRC support, feel free to poke me in any |
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> channel or to /msg me in private. |
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Jorge, thank you SO MUCH, for this, (and for being an adult in the
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sandbox. I wasn't at the top of my game today :-)
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