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 54DB3138C52 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 01:28:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E9285E0BC3; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 01:27:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173019pub.verizon.net (vms173019pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5012AE0BA7 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 01:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.0.2] ([72.66.104.220]) by vms173019.mailsrvcs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.32.0 64bit (built Jul 16 2014)) with ESMTPA id <0NMO001PC6Q12F20@vms173019.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Apr 2015 20:27:42 -0500 (CDT) X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=Pd9IXZlY c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=ytWWk8eSgK6SVwZXoxBcug==:117 a=jsDdX_xXOoMA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=o1OHuDzbAAAA:8 a=oR5dmqMzAAAA:8 a=-9mUelKeXuEA:10 a=e9J7MTPGsLIA:10 a=yOyXluGhxktQzop9TecA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Message-id: <5529CA0B.9060102@verizon.net> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 21:27:39 -0400 From: Alan Grimes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1 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] Machine completely broken; Ncursed! References: <55292E11.9040202@verizon.net> <4217540.FKfgBIrGlZ@wstn> In-reply-to: <4217540.FKfgBIrGlZ@wstn> Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b6ee9681-99c0-45e2-9f1e-20e73c4cc146 X-Archives-Hash: e7026904df10c4bb9c8ead2d84192ec6 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.