Re: [gentoo-user] fsck won't work if ac cord not attached?!

[Maxim Wexler]

so tell me how come none of you quarter-brights have responded to the
email where I say this problem has been fixed?

you want to help? answer me this: why did # /var/git/openrc/git pull
--rebase update all init.d services except net.lo? That's today's
scintillating question.

On 12/1/09, Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@×××××.com> wrote:
>> We just want to help you -- that's what the police say before they tase
>> your ass
>>
>> On 12/1/09, Maxim Wexler <maxim.wexler@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> meh, you got nothing
>>>
>>> On 12/1/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 22:19:24 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:57:58 -0700, Maxim Wexler wrote:
>>>>> > Fine, then read what I say and, until you know better, believe it.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, you're right, everyone else is wrong and there's no point in any of
>>>>> us trying to help you.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Wise Chinese man say: young tempestuous fellow need to bang head on rock
>>>> many
>>>> more time before lesson be learned. Allow young man to bang head,
>>>> obviously
>>>> he
>>>> like. Maybe he get head rush?
>>>>
>>>> One day he'll realise that he has installed a combination of software
>>>> packages
>>>> that just does not do what suits him best. Then he will change it. Until
>>>> then,
>>>> well, many happy non-booting returns!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
> I *almost* feel sorry for you, after several people here have tried to
> help, even WITHOUT you giving an actual direct error message that
> you're receiving beyond the *expected* behavior of the fsck being
> skipped on boot, and even despite your being belligerent toward
> several of the most helpful people I've seen on the list overall. What
> I do fail to understand, though, is why a person would post, asking
> for help, disregard every bit of help given, and *both* act as though
> they're being forced to listen to help they didn't ask for *and* as
> though they're not getting any help at all. If someone gives you an
> answer that is wrong for the situation as you see it, it typically
> means one of two things... 1) you didn't give all the details needed
> for them to understand what you're seeing and to know WHY the answer
> they're giving isn't correct, which  2) you're overlooking or ignoring
> something that they're trying to point out in their answer and,
> despite what you may want to hear, they are in fact correct. Now,
> a-typically, it's possible you know what's wrong, what's causing it,
> and the solution, so you can instantly know that answers you're
> receiving are wrong... but in my experience, in those cases, people
> don't waste other people's time asking for help.
>
> --
> Poison [BLX]
> Joshua M. Murphy
>
>