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On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 22:00 +0200, Dark wrote: |
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> I know that this topic has probable been out-debated by now, and viewers |
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> of this mailing list, I can definently advice you to read the previous |
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> posts as well. But I still want to tell me story though. |
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> |
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> I just got a remote server (kernel 2.4) running today, and when updating |
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> portage and updating world I found out it was emergin linux-headers-2.6 |
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> , which is very bad since I'm using that 2.4 kernel (for hardware |
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> reasons). So I quickly stopped it before it removed 2.4 (it had |
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> installed 2.6 by the time I found out). |
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> Masked linux-headers-2.6 and gentoo-sources-2.6 like this: |
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> Angel root # echo ">sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6" >> |
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> /etc/portage/package.mask |
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> Angel root # echo ">sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6" >> |
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> /etc/portage/package.mask |
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> |
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> I quickly removed linux-headers-2.6 from the system again, so nothing |
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> got confused later on. |
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> That being done I continued, onto updating the rest of world - meaning |
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> emergin glibc-2.3.4-20041102-r1 . |
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> This package failed sanity check of /lib/cpp which is generally a sign |
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> of bad linux headers (that is nice to know by the way). |
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> So after some time I tried to re-emerging linux-headers-2.4 just to see |
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> if that would make things work again: |
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> Angel root # emerge --ask --verbose --oneshot linux-headers |
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> |
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> And this made things work again. |
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> So, to all the readers that might have some problems with the |
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> linux-headers forcing themselves down on their system: |
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> make sure you have your /etc/portage/package.mask all tuned up for your |
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> system (or at least the two lines I put in mine). |
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> And, if the /lib/cpp fails , then try and re-emerging the linux-headers |
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> for your kernel (2.4 if you run a 2.4 kernel, and 2.6 if you run a 2.6 |
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> kernel) |
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> |
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> I hope none of the readers read this mail and found it completely |
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> useless - it was ment to purely sum up using my story of horror to do so :-) |
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> |
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> /Jakob Rosenlund |
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Yuck. Sorry you had to experience that. I use 2.6 kernels, so I would |
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assume I'd be fine, but I'll definately be doing a full backup before |
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hand... |
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Anyone think that I wouldn't be fine? |
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