[gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

[gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

[Drew Tomlinson]

I'm using Gentoo kernel 2.6.13-r5 kernel on a box whose primary purpose 
is MythTV.  After upgrading to this kernel and reading about 
periodically cleaning cruft from systems, I followed some advice about 
doing something along the lines of 'emerge -depclean'.  I thought 
everything was fine but now I suspect I was wrong.

Just the other day, my machine (which has been functioning just fine for 
several weeks) locked up.  After rebooting, known good video files in 
Myth freeze on the first frame.  Audio plays just fine.  Previous 
experience has shown me that this is caused by ivtv not being happy.  
For example, this behavior will occur after a kernel upgrade and then is 
fixed by emerging ivtv again.

So I tried rebuilding ivtv but the problem persists.  Thus I suspect I 
deleted something I shouldn't have with 'emerge -depclean'.  Any 
suggestion on the best way to figure out what that "something" was and 
get things running again?

Thanks,

Drew

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:07:39 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> So I tried rebuilding ivtv but the problem persists.  Thus I suspect I 
> deleted something I shouldn't have with 'emerge -depclean'.  Any 
> suggestion on the best way to figure out what that "something" was and 
> get things running again?

Running revdep-rebuild -p should identify the culprit. If not, look at
the output from genlop -u to see what was removed by the depclean.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 2/9/2006 12:37 AM Neil Bothwick said the following:

>On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:07:39 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>
>  
>
>>So I tried rebuilding ivtv but the problem persists.  Thus I suspect I 
>>deleted something I shouldn't have with 'emerge -depclean'.  Any 
>>suggestion on the best way to figure out what that "something" was and 
>>get things running again?
>>    
>>
>
>Running revdep-rebuild -p should identify the culprit. If not, look at
>the output from genlop -u to see what was removed by the depclean.
>  
>

Thanks for your reply.  revdep-rebuild -p did not return anything but 
maybe that's because I already tried reinstalling ivtv.  I don't have 
genlop on my system.  What ebuild does it come from?

I seem to have resolved my problem.  When I reinstalled ivtv, it picked 
up the newest version (0.4.2) since it was unmasked in my 
package.keywords.  Reverting back to 0.4.0-r3 worked.  I'm running 
2.6.13-r5 kernel and maybe the newer ivtv isn't compatible with this kernel.

Thanks,

Drew

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:02:07 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.  revdep-rebuild -p did not return anything but 
> maybe that's because I already tried reinstalling ivtv.  I don't have 
> genlop on my system.  What ebuild does it come from?

Err, genlop

$ eix genlop
* app-portage/genlop
     Available versions:  0.30.2 0.30.3 0.30.5
     Installed:           0.30.5
     Homepage:            http://pollycoke.org/genlop.html
     Description:         A nice emerge.log parser


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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 2/9/2006 8:14 AM Neil Bothwick said the following:

>On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:02:07 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Thanks for your reply.  revdep-rebuild -p did not return anything but 
>>maybe that's because I already tried reinstalling ivtv.  I don't have 
>>genlop on my system.  What ebuild does it come from?
>>    
>>
>
>Err, genlop
>
>$ eix genlop
>* app-portage/genlop
>     Available versions:  0.30.2 0.30.3 0.30.5
>     Installed:           0.30.5
>     Homepage:            http://pollycoke.org/genlop.html
>     Description:         A nice emerge.log parser
>  
>

Thanks.  I guess I missed the obvious... :)

Drew

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaned Cruft and Broke ivtv - How to Fix?

[Frederic Jaeckel]

Hi Drew Tomlinson,
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:02:07AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I seem to have resolved my problem.  When I reinstalled ivtv, it picked 
> up the newest version (0.4.2) since it was unmasked in my 
> package.keywords.  Reverting back to 0.4.0-r3 worked.  I'm running 
> 2.6.13-r5 kernel and maybe the newer ivtv isn't compatible with this kernel.

yeah, i'd the same problems with the 0.4.2 drivers and its not
compatible with up to 2.6.14.4 (thats what i'd tested at this time). 

Wait until ivtv is marked as stable in Gentoo. ;-)

greetings

Frederic Jaeckel
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