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 1QMMb8-0002c5-Ss for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:54:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E62971C016; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.17.8]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA711C016 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 15:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC747B4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.199.71.180]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap0) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MRjfF-1QG8Ed0P8L-00TbfX; Tue, 17 May 2011 17:52:34 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 17:52:32 +0200 Message-ID: <4043199.3PZlqtmHYB@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.6 rc1 (Linux/2.6.36.4r4; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1305639755.6511.2@numa-i> References: <1305639755.6511.2@numa-i> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:Cb5FiUZUU2dCfwMYViCGt8dMDqoLF5Z9TOF+CfsnzXh fBzkIsPXpTZwjbkbbbQ/fObpc4uaeeUCngOGzBMiORunzFTTNq Ojv5HIlwSh/McKzQG5wLylfpQMil4eLtJink0qAE9APr9B5UyI zjNybT1hfyjaF7pcH7EdCepbmdwMMvHo/z2nlCQyWbqThfz8qG rkRCrx4oPu2WsHK/4GbjoVh1AKdLygn/sJ4PMLs6W4= X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 85ba15a840549ee93d1222549fe48b0d On Tuesday 17 May 2011 15:42:35 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. > > 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. > won't work. Even if the binaries in /usr are compiled with the same settings, just the different times of creation will result in different md5sums. What you want to do is: find the bug.