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On Wednesday, December 28, 2022 7:36:38 A.M. AEDT Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> I gave up on searching Google, and decided to nuke+repave. I'm sending |
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> from my backup ("successor") machine. The original machine now has basic |
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> install plus xorg-server plus icewm plus xterm. The titles on the xterm |
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> window bars are OK, i.e. they are *NOT* missing every second letter. I |
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> still have to install 74 apps from the backup copy I made of "world" and |
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> configure them. |
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> I fear that I may have to do the same with the backup machine. I run |
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> the same configs on both machines. I haven't updated the backup machine |
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> for 63 days, according to the warnings. Hopefully correcting make.conf |
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> right now will save me a second reinstall. |
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Did you try the not quite so hard "emerge --emptytree -a world" first? |
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It just recompiles your whole current system again, to make sure everything is up to date |
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and has the current set of Use flags. Skips all the initial installation steps, and keeps all |
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your /etc config customisations. |
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Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ |
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Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: |
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http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro |
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