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Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>> Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes: |
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>>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:14:26 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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>>>> So is it now an appropriate time for me to run an |
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>>>> emerge -e world |
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>>> It shouldn't do any harm. |
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>>>> I do not mind taking this machine offline for the few days of the |
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>>>> emerge. |
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>>> There's no need for that, just set PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 in make.conf. You |
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>>> may want to run emerge -ef world first to make sure all files you need |
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>>> are in $DISTDIR. |
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>> thanks, |
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>> allan |
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> Hi Allan, |
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> I admit to being a bit confused at this point. You ran the |
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> lafilefixer suggestion and said it fixed things. Did that step |
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> actually fix your libssl problem? |
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I "fixed" that problem by copying over the missing files from another |
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system. |
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> I guess you also ran fsck as it's a good thing to do once in awhile |
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> anyway. That's cool. |
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> It seems, however, that you're still going down the path of emerge |
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> -e @world. Why is that? If it's just to be confident that everything |
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> is back to the way it should be then I understand that. I've done it |
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> myself many times in the last 12 years. |
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Yes that is the reason. |
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> Just trying to get a handle on what the actual solution is vs all |
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> the other things going on in the thread! :-) |
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Thanks for the concern and help. |
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allan |