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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:39:08
Message-Id: 20200617103854.600cc6ee@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64 by Andreas Fink
1 On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:03:00 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote:
2
3 > > > Thanks for the heads up. To play safe, I emerge passwdqc before
4 > > > emerging @world. It actually emerge without complaint on the three
5 > > > systems I tried. I also made sure I could SSH in after updating PAM
6 > > > before terminating the existing session.
7 > >
8 > > MAKEOPTS="-j1" emerge -1 passwdqc worked here. Sys-libs/pam had
9 > > already installed by the time passwdqc failed the first time.
10 > > Sys-auth/pam is not in my update list, but sys-auth/pambase is, and
11 > > has installed without protest.
12 >
13 > Either USE="-passwdqc" for pambase or MAKEOPTS="-j1" for passwdqc works
14 > consistently for me too. I think you just need to make sure that
15 > pam+pambase are both updated before logging out ;)
16 > One system that I had to rescue from a live system + chroot :(
17
18 Interestingly, I've now emerged passwordqc successfully on four systems,
19 with MAKEOPTS ranging from -j2 to j8. Only the 4th failed, and that
20 worked when I went from -j4 to -j3. This appears to be a bit of a
21 borderline case, which may explain why it slipped through.
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24 --
25 Neil Bothwick
26
27 If at first you don't succeed, give up. No use being a damn fool.

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Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64 Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>