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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 10/07/2014 21:42, Dale wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> On 10/07/2014 20:11, List Reader wrote: |
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>>>> Okay, I see. Thank you so much. Soo so much. I thought I was going round |
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>>>> the twist, or hopelesly ignorant. I couln't understand why emerge didn't offer me |
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>>>> --autounmask-write, so I could dispatch-conf and move on. I was having |
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>>>> similar problems with media-gfx/freecad and some others, but eselecting the |
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>>>> apropriate target/slot thing made it go. Okay, that's it for today. My |
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>>>> eys hurt. I'll do it in the morning. you guys are great. I'm going to bed. |
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>>> Stick with it, it gets easier. Portage *does* have it's special way of |
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>>> looking at the world, but after a while it starts to make some kind of |
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>>> sense. It just doesn't happen quickly, you have to persist with the damn |
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>>> thing :-) |
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>> After a little over 10 years, I'm still trying to get portage. Just |
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>> when I start to make sense of something, they change the thing. I |
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>> wonder if they do it just to pick on me. "Let's make the error spit out |
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>> backwards just to screw with Dale." Yep. I bet that's it. ROFL |
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> You're /almost/ right |
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> Actually, some clever dev wrote a script that polls this list, and every |
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> 23 times Dale uses the word "thingie" it makes a semi-random change to |
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> the portage code. Each init-thingie counts as three regular thingies. |
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> The changes are semi-random not fully properly random because the |
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> changes are crafted to mess with Dale's head. |
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> So now you know. It's not you and it isn't your fault :-) |
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I wish they would stop doing that!!! |
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You recall my REALLY old rig? The AMD 2500+ one named smoker. Anyway, |
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I have booted CDs/DVDs with it a few times so hardware it works fine. I |
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couldn't get Gentoo to boot up right. It would load the kernel, start |
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the services and then give be a blank screen when X would start, I guess |
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since the timing is about right. Bit rot I guess. I dunno. Weird. |
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One would think it would boot just like it did before tho. It now has |
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that Mageia installed on it, well, being installed. Oh, hitting ctrl |
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alt F* didn't do anything either. The magic keys worked tho. |
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I noticed another thing too. I wanted to boot into boot runlevel. I |
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added softlevel=boot on the grub command line. I have noticed this |
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before and since that rig is out of date, it could work correctly now. |
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Thing is, it boots, goes right past the boot runlevel and just plain |
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ignores my wishes then goes back to boot runlevel. Like I said, I |
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noticed that before. It boots normally THEN switches back to whatever |
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runlevel was requested. Well, obviously if something in the default |
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runlevel causes a crash then that doesn't end well. |
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I'm going to test that on my new rig when I reboot. If it still does |
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that, it may need some Raid. o_O |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |