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 <gentoo-user+bounces-122910-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1QMLsT-00074R-7d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:08:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 175551C18A; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:04:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 991CE1C18A for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:04:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 43873 invoked by uid 3782); 17 May 2011 15:04:35 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951B47E.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.180.126]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 May 2011 17:04:33 +0200 Received: (qmail 6610 invoked by uid 1000); 17 May 2011 15:03:55 -0000 Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 15:03:55 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help Message-ID: <20110517150355.GA6203@acm.acm> References: <1305639755.6511.2@numa-i> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> 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 In-Reply-To: <1305639755.6511.2@numa-i> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 983f5554f027cb84eb6ae108c4b718b9 Good day, Helmut! On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 03:42:35PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- > to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. "Nearly identical" is a bit like "slightly pregnant". How about making the two boxes' packages identical (with the same use flags) and seeing if the problem goes away. > Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- > kde-authentication-agent-1 segmentation fault. > On the other machine there is no problem. > How can one smartly compare two Gentoo installations. > Currently I would have to produce an md5sum of all files in > /etc /usr /var and / and compare these. But there are dozens of > thousands of files in these directories. Compare the /var/lib/portage/world's just to be sure. But you've done that already. How about a deep comparison of the etc's. > Many thanks for any ideas, > Helmut. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).