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 1NfrCj-0008Ax-KR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:48:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9CAEE0B5B; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:47:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52400E0B5B for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:47:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 23090 invoked by uid 3782); 12 Feb 2010 08:47:45 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E52774.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.39.116]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:47:44 +0100 Received: (qmail 1531 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Feb 2010 08:54:53 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:54:53 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please! Message-ID: <20100212085453.GA1207@muc.de> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: a692f3c3-a32c-4852-9acf-4ab680f84be1 X-Archives-Hash: 495a622a673887f772c0cebd32bf8d5c Hi, Gentoo, My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging the xfce window manager. I "solved" this by emerging Openbox instead. Then I got another compiler segfault whilst emerging firefox (yes, I know there's a binary for this). Then, on somebody's advice (not fully understood), I did # emerge -e gcc , to try and get a consistent working gcc. This crashed. I repeated the invocation, and it crashed more quickly. :-( At this point, I thought, just reload "everything" from the stage3, with # cd / ; bunzip2 /stage3-amd64-20100121.tar.gz , which didn't help either. I emerged gentoolkit, to see if I could get some handle on the mess. Then # revdep-rebuild -p threw a segfault. At this point, I'm feeling a bit sad. My rough guess is that there's some conflict somewhere between 32-bit and 64-bit code, and some of my USE flags are inconsistent with some others, or the kernel, or something like that. One other thing I remember vaguely is that early on, some emerge told me I had to "revdep-rebuild" something. I wasn't able to do this through not yet knowing what "revdep-rebuild" meant, and not having any file of that name on my system. Could this be the cause? Finally, is there a way of reloading/rebuilding ALL the executables onto/on my system without discarding all my painfully wrought config files and without portage getting confused? Thanks in advance for the help! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).