Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Thursday 13 November 2008, Dan Wallis wrote:
> On 13/11/2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
>
> <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan Wallis <mrdanwallis@×××××.com> wrote:
> >  > On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann
> >  >
> >  > <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
> >  >> as root: lspci
> >  >
> >  > Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own
> >  > user as when I run it as root. Or have I got my system set up
> >  > different to everyone else?
> >
> > $ lspci
> >  bash: lspci: command not found
> >  echo ${PATH}
> >
> > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.
> >2:/opt/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06/bin:/opt/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06/javaws:/usr/game
> >s/bin At least in my system, the lspci binary resides in /usr/sbin, which
> > is not in ${PATH}
> >  So you should either call lspci as root or issue the explicit command
> >  /usr/sbin/lspci
>
> Yes, I do have that directory in my PATH.
>
> >  That said, if you want to use the -v flag of lspci (for extra
> >  verbosity), you should be root, or you will see some fields filled
> >  with <access denied>
>
> Thanks for the tip; I didn't know about the verbose flag. It looks
> like that'll come in useful when I do my next build in a few weeks.

not really. For an enduser --verbose isn't very helpfull.