From: Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 21:27:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5529CA0B.9060102@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4217540.FKfgBIrGlZ@wstn>
Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 11 April 2015 10:22:09 Alan Grimes wrote:
>
>> Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3
>> packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do
>> that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out
>> the changes to portage, obviously without any testing whatsoever, that
>> broke my system so comprehensively is tortured, executed, butchered, and
>> then cremated.
> Why don't you just start again from scratch, following the official docs? You
> don't need to override every little setting; portage knows best, just like
> your Ma. Use the force...
Well, emptytree world seems to be working so far, the official diagnosis
is a long-forgotten hack of a work-around to a problem that I must have
been dealing with more than two years ago.
--
IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel.
Powers are not rights.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-12 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-11 14:22 [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed! Alan Grimes
2015-04-11 14:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-11 17:22 ` Mick
2015-04-11 19:41 ` Alan Grimes
2015-04-11 21:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-11 20:04 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2015-04-12 0:42 ` Alan Grimes
2015-04-12 0:58 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-04-12 1:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2015-04-12 1:58 ` Dale
2015-04-12 9:12 ` J. Roeleveld
2015-04-12 17:23 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2015-04-12 18:35 ` Matti Nykyri
2015-04-13 1:07 ` »Q«
2015-04-13 5:48 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-04-14 2:08 ` »Q«
2015-04-12 20:07 ` J. Roeleveld
2015-04-13 1:15 ` »Q«
2015-04-13 1:24 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2015-04-13 1:38 ` »Q«
2015-04-13 1:52 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2015-04-14 1:55 ` »Q«
2015-04-13 5:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-04-14 3:38 ` »Q«
2015-04-13 7:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-14 3:51 ` »Q«
2015-04-14 7:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-15 3:09 ` »Q«
2015-04-15 8:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-04-12 9:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2015-04-12 14:13 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2015-04-11 23:23 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-04-12 1:25 ` Alan Grimes
2015-04-12 0:06 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-04-12 1:27 ` Alan Grimes [this message]
2015-04-12 14:52 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-04-16 2:40 ` Fernando Rodriguez
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