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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 19:33:05
Message-Id: 201105022131.02478.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working by Mick
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 19:10 on Monday 02 May 2011, Mick did opine
2 thusly:
3
4 > On Monday 02 May 2011 17:05:08 Davide Carnovale wrote:
5 > > @alan, no error are printed, where and what should i look for in the
6 > > logs?
7 > >
8 > > @helmut python just returns to the console, without error or effect of
9 > > any sort, does it means python has get unmerged and that's why emerge
10 > > doesn't work anymore?
11 >
12 > I'll guess, since everybody else is, that you updated python to 2.7, then
13 > did *NOT* run python-update, did not use eselect to change to 2.7, but
14 > *DID* run emerge --depclean which removed dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2.
15 >
16 > So, to find out what happened trawl through /var/log/emerge.log and then
17 > look at the messages you got in /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log for
18 > advice as to what you missed doing.
19
20 If you have genlop installed,
21
22 genlop -u python
23
24 will show if python was unmerged recently. (emerge logs are almost impossible
25 to scan by eye as the timestamps are epoch time)
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29 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com