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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> [15-04-26 13:36]: |
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> On 26/04/2015 09:57, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> > Hi Alan, |
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> > thanks for your help! Good to know, that's not totally me not |
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> > understanding, what's going on on my machine...but there are also the |
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> > enigmatic words of Master Emerge, which blows fog into my pain |
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> > suffering brain... ;))) |
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> > For me it looked like a typical "blocked" situation and something, |
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> > which needs to be fixxed... |
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> > But it only means: Everything is fine but it is not using the newest |
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> > of the valid siftware revisions. |
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> > But I am sure it will not take too long until I am again kneeling in |
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> > front of altar of the allmigthy Emerge as a novice trying to decipher |
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> > its holy words.... |
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> > |
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> > Until then,..best regards and have a nice Sunday! |
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> I couldn't see from your posted output if emerge can continue or not, or |
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> if these were fatal blockers. Which one was it? |
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> Either way, it comes down to the same thing: emerge can update |
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> everything to absolutely latest (in your case because of nvidia drivers) |
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> so emerge either offers a second-best scenario, or fails to find |
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> anything that can work and bails. |
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> The confusing bit is the reams of junk on the screen. |
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> -- |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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Hi Alan, |
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the problem here is, that the naked eye of a novice cant tell a real |
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blocker from a "everything is fine but not of bleeding edge version of |
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software". This needs to be fixed, since Gentoo will always be new to |
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new users. Thats why they are new users. And even the older ones get |
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confused from time to time (me). |
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I did the following: |
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Shutdown X and went back to "mother eart": The FB console. |
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Start an update to see what "blocks" what. |
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Emerge -C of all blockers (and remember what I removed.) |
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Repeat the last two steps until no blockers are there. |
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Do a real update. |
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If some of the removed items are not automagically reinstalled: |
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Do it by hand. |
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This way my update is now at the newest version. |
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If I can do that...I think emerge should also able of doing |
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this (or at least suggest this to the user). |
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"Just remove the blocker and install it later." helped me |
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often. |
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Best regards, |
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Meino |
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