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On 2/28/07, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 14:23 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > As I said in a response a few minutes ago the emerge -e world, |
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> > although not completely done, appears to have fixed it. Evolution is |
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> > now running fine. |
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> > I will wait for the emerge -e world to finish up tonight and ensure |
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> > it's still working. |
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> > We may never know exactly what caused the problem I suspect. |
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> if you want to know what broke it, then you should take the time to |
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> compile in some debugging symbols (just in evolution and associated |
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> libs, not the entire world!) This would have been quicker than |
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> rebuilding absolutely everything! |
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> You obviously have time, as you just did an emerge -e world ;) |
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> Unfortunately I don't think you'll be better off blindly fixing it - |
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> what if it happens again? What if a similar thing happens to a |
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> different package? Just switching mail-clients wont help - any package |
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> is potentially open to crashing. Take the time now to find out why, and |
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> save yourself time in the future, IMHO :) |
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> but glad it's working again. |
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> cya, |
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> -- |
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> Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Iain, |
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In principle I agree with you but specifics dictated the outcome this time. |
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1) I really didn't understand how to get the debugging stuff in there |
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and actually working. Learning would have taken time. |
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2) My dad, an almost 79 year old Gentoo user, was traveling and |
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returning home today. I Wanted him to have email. |
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3) Yes, emerge -e world takes time but requires very little attention |
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so I am free to try to earn a living. I had only one digest mismatch |
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in the rebuild. Other than that one stoppage the process went |
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uninterrupted while I got other things done. |
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I'm thinking that what I do need to do is learn to get debugging |
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info but I can experiment with that on my machine instead of his. I |
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worry that something basic will go wrong and because the machine is |
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300 miles away it would have to get shipped to me. If I work with my |
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own machines first I'll have a better idea what's safe and what works. |
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Now what I need to do is spend a little time learning more about |
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debugging symbols and the tools required to make sense of them. Keep |
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in mind that I am a user, not an IT guy, not a developer, not even a |
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CS major. I only need to know enough to provide information to helpful |
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folks who need it. I'll go work on that over the next few weeks maybe. |
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Cheers and thanks! |
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- Mark |
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