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On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 09:53, Greg Corcoran wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have just experienced the "Red Star" trying to emerge ALSA on one of |
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> my Gentoo systems. |
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> The "Red Star" problem has the following symptoms: |
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> 1. An emerge is executed |
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> 2. The package is downloaded if required |
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> 3. The checksum is calculated |
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> 4. A mysterious red star "*" appears and nothing further happens |
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> I'm running portage 2.0.33 with GCC 2.95.3 and have read about other |
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> people having this problem emerging ALSA, Nvidia drivers and OpenOffice. |
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> My guess is that there might be a new bug somewhere in Portage 2.0.33. I |
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> have read some people have seen this in 2.0.32. |
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Not entirely portage (actually, not at all). |
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> Does anyone have any insights to what is going on? I'm not a coding |
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> expert but I can certainly help out with testing. |
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Yeah. Will think of the proper fix now. |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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