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Good day, Helmut! |
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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 03:42:35PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- |
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> to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. |
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"Nearly identical" is a bit like "slightly pregnant". How about making |
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the two boxes' packages identical (with the same use flags) and seeing if |
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the problem goes away. |
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> Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- |
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> kde-authentication-agent-1 segmentation fault. |
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> On the other machine there is no problem. |
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> How can one smartly compare two Gentoo installations. |
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> Currently I would have to produce an md5sum of all files in |
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> /etc /usr /var and / and compare these. But there are dozens of |
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> thousands of files in these directories. |
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Compare the /var/lib/portage/world's just to be sure. But you've done |
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that already. How about a deep comparison of the etc's. |
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> Many thanks for any ideas, |
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> Helmut. |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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