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From: Heinz Sporn <heinz.sporn@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Few questions from Gentoo (not Linux) newb
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 06:40:08
Message-Id: 1127197976.10141.5.camel@spok.local.sporn-it.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Few questions from Gentoo (not Linux) newb by Bob Alexander
1 Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2005, 08:12 +0200 schrieb Bob Alexander:
2 > Dear friends,
3 > trying out Gentoo after many years (mostly) on Debian.
4 >
5 > Q1) I wanted to use the swsusp2 patch to the kernel. emerged a package
6 > and in fact it was an entirely new kernel tree with the patches
7 > included. The swsusp2 patches are not at the latest level and I am
8 > having problems (kernel oops) with this when suspending. What is the
9 > correct way to deinstall this second kernel tree, obtain the swsusp2
10 > patches only (I would know how to do that manually of course).
11 >
12 > Q2) I now have a nice bootsplash upon booting but the shutdown process
13 > is not shown (black screen and then poweroff). What's up ?
14 >
15 > Q3) When emerging packages I get a message saying something like /etc 42
16 > files need fixing (or similar do not have the machine here to try). What
17 > should I actually do ? Why this message ?
18
19 I guess you have to run etc-update here. Some emerged packages would
20 like to change certain /etc files (i.e. configurations). etc-update
21 will let you do that in a more or less save way.
22
23 >
24 > Thank you very much,
25 > Bob
26 >
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