From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DrcZH-0002Md-Hb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:14:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6AEBowk023224; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:11:50 GMT Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6AEBnRI009850 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:11:49 GMT Received: from gaia.prhnet (unknown [84.12.164.30]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47CF6251634 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:12:17 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.129.25] (wstn.home [192.168.129.25]) by gaia.prhnet (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56F2122B8 for ; Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:12:20 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42D12CC2.4030605@gotadsl.co.uk> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:12:18 +0100 From: Peter Humphrey User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050704) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge --emptytree problem References: <1f81f7e005071006253b5cc8da@mail.gmail.com> <200507100934.20895.sean@sfsullivan.org> <1f81f7e0050710065673e20768@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1f81f7e0050710065673e20768@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 594d2b82-09b5-4ca1-a156-8ec994f65f4b X-Archives-Hash: 4dbadeb9b159a7893ee6d82e41fc9c9d Mark wrote: >I'll have to try again and see, I've already rebooted to start again. >When it fails (most recently it was at the qt-xxxx package install, it >has the usual "post the topmost error" message. But since I'm in the >console, I can't scroll up higher than the current screen displays. >How do I get to the error you would need to see? Thanks for the >help... > > Shift-PgUp should scroll the screen up provided you haven't switched consoles. Or you could define a portage log directory in your make.conf, remembering to create it of course, then ls -lrt will show you the most recent file and you can read there what happened. My make.conf includes: PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage. HTH. -- Rgds Peter Humphrey Linux Counter 5290, Aug 93. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list