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 1O5hla-0000YF-Vu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:59:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 825A5E07A4; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:59:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A3E2E07A4 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:59:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.28]) by qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 9R4a1e0040cQ2SLA1TzKG7; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:59:19 +0000 Received: from bdp6tse.localnet ([98.222.39.69]) by omta10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 9TzJ1e0091VXV5e8WTzKda; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:59:19 +0000 From: billyd To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel for now Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:59:17 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.33-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <201004240740.47517.billydw@comcast.net> <201004241618.39091.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201004241618.39091.alan.mckinnon@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: <201004241059.17321.billydw@comcast.net> X-Archives-Salt: fed35aaa-7ea2-41c3-a8ab-51aeb276e3e9 X-Archives-Hash: e53cad86f720a728a779965e4f98b4a5 > Well, quite a few people *did* have elog issues recently here. > > I suppose you can be forgiven for making a perfectly reasonable assumption, > even if it was wrong in the end :-) Thanks again, Alan, I've been working with Gentoo for nearly 6 years now and try to resolve all my issues without asking for help. I still consider myself a newbie. I feel I learn more by researching the issue. In fact, I think I only posted to the lists one time 4 to 5 years ago. Being a retired investigator, I know I must consider all the evidence even if it proves my initial theory was wrong. Here, the fact that no one else was reporting the same issue ( similar, yes, but not the same) led me to consider that I may not really have a problem, or that I may have somehow introduced the problem myself. I knew that was unlike simply because I had not make any changes on my system. For me, 2 weeks of -uNDv world and no entries in elog/ seemed unusual. I did check for duplicate entries in /var/log/portage. Like you said, they were not identical - one was a summary and the other the complete log. Don't know why I didn't think to do my test with the nvidia-drivers or some other package I know always puts a .log file in elog/ earlier. I think I will unmask portage as you suggest and give it a try. That is why I have 3 Gentoo installs. I try to keep one clear of problems and use it to sync off the Gentoo mirrors. I sync the other 2 installs off the first one to save bandwith all around. I use them to work out issues or try new things. Your help, insight, suggestions are much appreciated. billyd