From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7xVu-0004Yr-DC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:40:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 629BCE0C0F; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f225.google.com (mail-fx0-f225.google.com [209.85.220.225]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222F2E0C0F for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm25 with SMTP id 25so450779fxm.26 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:40:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=4Ra648pzcx/mMCMOadt8mtBHjp1BM0c5qKkomHQ75X8=; b=jPxEgDdg8u5vi87pA5kA45xdSVx7831SgApLDqX6DVn4Bd1GC5I81c+Wl9e50m6wXV rZigEnfmXiuy6cjnPnv6qrDn583oi9f/NGj++TbjoPsGU1qw8jlbO1Rlst7RPD3QXJ08 k7Y/47KgkoEEekLGVeyfxrNy3nB1juJvymB6Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=dEx/rlDDuNTLQxxcbzTv+WZYORNw+7Us0t5jiaLvwI3F2aNjB1l55wMPzG+WE8TdkK Mul9yX1puPPfY7GrSusuWXoGXh8nNGnPV3q0KcqUbPvEF6o0AuOiA4JUIDAusqPbpJ4o sIRBtl97sSAeax8uz7DQBZnW5zBLBUemyhzdI= Received: by 10.102.188.8 with SMTP id l8mr202173muf.116.1257885628388; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:40:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-40-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm4270638mup.12.2009.11.10.12.40.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:40:27 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:39:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.31-zen7; KDE/4.3.74; x86_64; ; ) References: <445a8b100911100631h326a2ff6o46c00dff78f9f34@mail.gmail.com> <200911101706.44057.wonko@wonkology.org> <4AF9AD89.1060601@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AF9AD89.1060601@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911102239.24745.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: bf47f314-46a8-40dc-9fe0-269993b3eab6 X-Archives-Hash: e7af29af271b1f8979e1617291c33f06 On Tuesday 10 November 2009 20:14:33 Dale wrote: > > I'd just try to emerge lvm2 and see what happens. It's not a big > > package. Man, I use LVM on all of my systems, I really like it. > > > > Wonko > > > > > > I'm not even sure I need device-mapper. I may just uninstall all the > stuff and reboot. I can always chroot in and fix it. If it runs fine > then I can see what pulled it in and if I can get rid of that as well. > You likely don;t need it then. device-mapper is only used by lvm and software- raid type packages. If you use those, you will know about it -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com