Hi, Walter. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:33:06AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 09:24:32AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote > Once you're back to your old setup, can you do me a favour? Please do > the following... > 1) Add the line... > sys-fs/udev > to /etc/portage/package.mask. DONE. > 2) Run the 2 commands > emerge -pv system > system.txt > emerge -pv world > world.txt > 3) Remove the "sys-fs/udev" entry from /etc/portage/package.mask. :-) I would have forgotten about that. > and gzip or zip the files system.txt and world.txt and file-attach them. > My guess is that at the end of world.txt, there will be a complaint > about udev being masked. I intend to add that sanity-check to the > instructions, so that people will know ahead of time whether or not > they'll run into this problem. I also did "2> {system,world}.err". system.err was empty. I've included world.err in the enclosed tarball. > Again, sorry about putting you through this trouble. You did what a > beta tester is supposed to do, i.e. find problems/bugs. Not at all! I'd love to get this working on my machine. > -- > Walter Dnes -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).