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 1N7sg1-0001vo-Bk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:30:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9C91E07CC; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:30:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com (mail-yx0-f174.google.com [209.85.210.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC99DE07CC for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:30:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe4 with SMTP id 4so113301yxe.32 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:30:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=MaGHoBR+6/ddnF3RLi8b93rOZVYzC0ofOzL1Yl2rdeg=; b=a4zX2EVZipt6U4ikrblk90omciUTjEd/5/pXmRfCjoaiWoWGCniR4nUGU6TUV6A7NO Q1fszA6XeqGyE6A+jSOJHdD3n8QPnBOvP3WqgQ5UAdiJYVFVEcDwovP1zbVU4Fw/T3Tj FpEFqD6bSjOr+t+hMn5B9npjv1DeuH0rTAoK8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LDr7+g69UkOLkLDHIwWCnUiC+2fdHk7fghJ4LUjPFLkWsTDwuv+yQowP+8XCmzzic0 Nq8ntlCM+t3y9/cydIxgSM4agazkYust+DbKTH8ikjDHZXn9YoG2MytU7oA9mfDBO8FV YFuZYFcODh8pl4Ej9u+sNtOlOrtDst5EuSiWg= Received: by 10.101.115.4 with SMTP id s4mr285777anm.81.1257867035549; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:30:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-116-142.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.116.142]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 9sm323689ywe.11.2009.11.10.07.30.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:30:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4AF98718.3040104@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:30:32 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with update world References: <445a8b100911100631h326a2ff6o46c00dff78f9f34@mail.gmail.com> <4AF97A91.1080508@gmail.com> <200911101611.48772.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <200911101611.48772.wonko@wonkology.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e183d7fb-fb90-4725-88a3-8c02f1e258b4 X-Archives-Hash: 9ed9f646e1e68e849f3aa246cf9cfeed Alex Schuster wrote: > Dale writes: > > >> I am running into the same thing. I'm updating everything else then >> going to tackle this. In theory, you have to unmerge device-mapper >> then let it update. Something like: >> >> emerge -C device-mapper && emerge -uvDN world >> >> That's my plan at least. Unless someone else posts a better one. >> > > I just unmerged device-mapper and updated lvm2 right after that. So in > case of a crash or something during a longer world update I still have an > intact system. I'm not sure if it would boot with the old lvm2 and without > device-mapper, probably yes, but I did not want to take any risk. > > Um, shouldn't the new portage have dealt auto-magically with this blocker? > > Wonko > Here's something more interesting, I don't need or use lvm. I was trying to track it down with equery but I was getting drunk going in circles. I also assume that is why portage can't figure out a way to handle this. It got drunk too. After a while a drunk just falls down. lol Thought about using the -et options with emerge to figure this out. Dale :-) :-)