From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119AB138247 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:16:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0696AE0CF9; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:16:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out7.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out7.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775E4E0B99 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 00:16:28 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AiAFAN3d0VJ8qV4z/2dsb2JhbABagwu3bYMIgQcWdIIlAQEBBIEJCw0LCSUPAkYTCAEBh3/DZxePDhaEIQSJQYpyg2SGRSeLKYM6Lw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.95,645,1384272000"; d="scan'208";a="187006518" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.94.51]) by icp-osb-irony-out7.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 12 Jan 2014 08:16:26 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F6631F8 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 08:16:26 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at lan.localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6YJLDjRkuphO for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 08:16:09 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.44.3] (moriah [192.168.44.3]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750CA21D9 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 08:16:09 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <52D1DEC9.507@iinet.net.au> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 08:16:09 +0800 From: William Kenworthy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130928 Thunderbird/17.0.9 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] Purged gnome, lost X. :-( References: <20140111170217.GA3064@acm.acm> <52D17C64.9040109@gmail.com> <20140111193129.GA25206@acm.acm> <52D1A343.3070701@gmail.com> <20140111215122.750a6df0@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140111215122.750a6df0@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c1a382dd-b11b-43b6-aaaf-f20dcd069822 X-Archives-Hash: a23bbcbc8def837fa8a57cde7aee273f On 12/01/14 05:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 22:02:11 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I recommend you do these steps in this order >> >> 1. emerge -at --depclean >> Inspect the list carefully, 289 packages is a lot. Take your time; >> quickpkg anything you aren't sure of. When you are happy the list only >> contains stuff you want rid of, let it do it's thing >> >> 2. emerge -avuND world >> Let portage figure out what it needs to add and rebuild >> >> 3. emerge -av1 @preserved-rebuild >> Fix up any inconsistencies left from emerging world > > I would then repeat the three steps until none of them want to do > anything. > > I have had a few problems with more complex systems of late. Definitely add in "revdep-rebuild -i" and "python-updater" even if the error messages don't indicate they are not needed. "perl-cleaner --all" was needed as well a week or two ago. I also had a couple of systems die on the libpng update with weird errors as it was trying to use old libs and not the newer ones ... BillK