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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange behaviour in quite special case
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:56:20 +0100
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On Monday, 18 September 2017 14:13:44 BST Francisco Ares wrote:

> After days and days struggling,

I know what you mean. I've spent weeks wrestling with KMail. That included 
losing e-mails, falling behind in conversations and so on.

> I finally upgraded to the newest stable kernel and updated every package
> with a "emerge -e", just in case, twice! Then, rebuilt the kernel again.
> 
> So, like a charm, everything got back to work as before.

My technique in such cases is to emerge @system, then recompile the kernel, 
reboot on it and emerge -e world --exclude="gcc gentoo-sources". Seems to 
have worked out all right so far. You could omit the exclusion if you're 
even more paranoid than KMail has made me.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.