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 1MPI8o-0006Sz-25 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:36:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3C24E0353; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com (mail-gx0-f220.google.com [209.85.217.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84A52E0353 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so4570347gxk.10 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:36:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wvi+wBVu4u3htlZ7htwIPM1tpbmkUD6DJgz2E2uyxzk=; b=TzFRQ60JXq90MBf+s2oayVBPipItSL1YyFOfD8B1jbypAU+pYQpkXDKn5nlXb2xYR9 Hm/NlCa2ELlasTZscZctNOdyQADF5vIJfTZMcbb7QFO+4BoAimKAwAT39LEW95Sh9SxN gBIUBjX7Q2RTha6w9ffFp/A6eBNrwIUZMS9E8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=cM2V+cWXfv0nshGiuTXWVnmUKsn6RwJh50yumU/0pBmqVVIsIQd4EWy+ynl7dLtbpb kmNeH/PqYC2p/EsBTKA0G+/+4oH/re8lyEfzsvSGMPzisK1ur4N0377b0B9cihcWouYL SA4KoXnDO7J6XLPSz1GzlM4hSydQG5SIsrpWE= 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 Received: by 10.90.100.20 with SMTP id x20mr1792178agb.55.1247240160113; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:36:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A5740FF.4050209@gmail.com> References: <9acccfe50907081015s41d3c4dan369291296e2ee8e5@mail.gmail.com> <200907081928.18897.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <9acccfe50907090805w47390674jcb0803d8c5f1c32@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0907090836m44daaa5cia6a54d4f3ccc386d@mail.gmail.com> <20090709170320.1ddaab92@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <20090710011319.36adfd7b@dartworks.biz> <9acccfe50907100316o28497fb8h72b1ad0449cf8826@mail.gmail.com> <4A5740FF.4050209@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:36:00 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50907100836n1cc7af89lefff26af1afa2406@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg won't start From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: cc0322f1-51ce-46fd-9201-0235ba07afc0 X-Archives-Hash: b9de454e3ca0ed25b8925a24c07a52c7 On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Dale wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Keith Dart wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:03:20 +0100 >>> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> >>> >>>> The elog message from the xorg-server emerge also warns about updating >>>> drivers. >>>> >>> Users should probably make sure there is at least the following >>> in /etc/make.conf: >>> >>> PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=3D"echo save_summary" >>> >>> So you get a permanent record and a change to view them at the end of a >>> ebuild set. >>> >> >> I've been running with this for years: >> >> PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES=3D"info, warn, error, log" >> PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM=3D"save mail" >> FEATURES=3D"buildpkg parallel-fetch" >> >> And I had been thinking that the "buildpkg" was going to make >> reversion a lot easier, except that I've never actually installed one >> of these puppies. =A0Mind, I only tried once. =A0I've got about 4 GB of >> packages at the moment. =A0:o) >> >> ++ kevin >> >> > > You do know about eclean right? =A0At least that can clean out some old c= ruft. I assumed there was some such thing, but I don't want it. I miscounted anyway, and included only the partition set aside for old cruft, where I copy the oldest packages there every year or so -- it seems I like having them even if I don't know why. Counting the new cruft, it's more like 7 GB. With drive prices being what they are, it's no big deal. Since about a year ago, I've been able to afford mirrored 500GB SATA drives on this machine, with a separage eSATA for backups, and I have an eSATA at work for offsite backup too. The external ones fit in my backpack nicely for the "sneakernet" part of my backup plan. Having suffered and paid for hard drive crashes in the past, I really really love this. --=20 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD