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On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 16 May 2010 22:45:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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> > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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> > >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > >> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com |
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> > >> |
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> > >> wrote: |
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> > >> |
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> > >> <major snippage> |
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> > >> |
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> > >> > Oh, and one more thing showed up last night. I reemerged udev, and |
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> > >> |
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> > >> noticed |
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> > >> |
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> > >> > that the ebuild printed a message to the effect that if it doesn't |
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> > >> > work, |
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> > >> |
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> > >> I |
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> > >> |
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> > >> > should try emerging hal first. Leaving aside the non-effective |
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> > >> |
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> > >> language, I |
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> > >> |
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> > >> > tried that and although hal is installed, I can no longer build it. |
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> > >> |
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> > >> This |
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> > >> |
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> > >> > may turn out to be the most important thing. It turns out I can't |
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> > >> |
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> > >> compile |
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> > >> |
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> > >> > the latest wireshark either. Maybe something is hosed deep down. |
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> It |
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> > >> |
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> > >> may |
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> > >> |
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> > >> > be time to go down the "emptytree" road again, but it took 2 weeks |
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> > >> > last time, and was a major PITA. |
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> > >> |
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> > >> I don't know if you have been following the "libpng12 is missing" |
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> > >> thread, but |
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> > >> for good measure you may want to try lafilefixer --justfixit and |
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> revdep- |
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> > >> rebuild -p -v -i a number of times first. On two machines of mine |
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> (x86) |
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> > >> there |
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> > >> was no problem. On another (amd64) I had to go through the pain of |
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> > >> emerge -e |
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> > >> world. |
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> > >> |
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> > >> I just did the lafixer thing and was astonished at how many .la files |
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> it |
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> > > |
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> > > said it was |
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> > > fixing. Seems like my system should have been dead outright.... |
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> > > |
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> > > Now I'm off to a bunch of revdep-rebuilds. |
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> > > |
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> > > Hope this works, because I really *do not* want to emerge -e world |
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> > > (again). |
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> > > |
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> > > |
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> > > I've got to ask, though, what good a revdep-rebuild does with the -p |
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> > |
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> > (pretend) flag. |
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> > Am I missing something here? |
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> |
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> You're not missing anything. It's a cautionary step only. If you are |
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> about |
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> to do something with the machine and remerging the whole universe would be |
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> inconvenient at this moment in time, or you may want to reconsider/change |
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> some |
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> of your settings, then --pretend will give you this chance. I've made the |
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> habit of using it almost without thinking, but you can of course not use |
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> it, |
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> or substitute it with -a. |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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Well, it just told me it will rebuild clisp and m4, neither of which strike |
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me as essential to Xorg, but I'll give it a try. |
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Thanks, |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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