Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 23 April 2010 19:12:45 billyd wrote:
> Hi, all:
>
> I used to get info, error and warn messages in /var/log/portage/elog after
> emerging packages or doing  emerge -uNDvp world.  Beginning about 2 weeks
> ago, I noticed I am no longer getting those elog entries.  Additionally, I
> noticed that I am getting duplicate entries for each package  that is
> emerged in /var/log/portage (of course, these are the compile logs).

Have you checked the obvious things, like sufficient disk space in elog/ ?


What version of portage and python are you running?



>
> I have Gentoo installed on 2 computers, both using arch ~amd64. All 3
> installations have KDE 4 (latest in portage for ~amd64 arch).
>
> PC #1  uses this profile:  default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde
> PC #2 has two installs:
>
> 	Install #1 uses profile: default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop
> 	Install #2 uses profile: default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib
>
> This problem is happening on all 3 of my Gentoo installations and all
> started at the same time.  The only changes have been through doing
> updates. I sync nearly every day followed my # emerge -uNDvp world. Other
> than issues with xorg-server 1.8.0 and the nvidia-drivers, all my updates
> have been successful.
>
> Note: I have masked xorg-server 1.8.0 in /etc/portage/package.mask until
> the nvidia-drivers catch up.
>
> I have searched the forums, checked bugzilla and googled on this topic and
> have yet to find a solution.  My Gentoo installs are working just fine
> except for this issue.
>
> I have attached /etc/make.conf from only one of the installs as they are
> all the same. Here are the 3 lines I have in my make.conf files as they
> relate to logging the elog messages:
>
> PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/portage"
> PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error"
> PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"
>
> Thank you for the help.
>
> billyd

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