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From: James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: General weirdness - a tale of woe.
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 18:38:08 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20150527T201403-932@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2988031.1MpZN5Nf01@wstn

Peter Humphrey <peter <at> prh.myzen.co.uk> writes:

> 
> Hello list,
> 
> Over the last few weeks I've been having odd things go bump in the night.
> This is a KDE amd64 system with /usr under / and no initrd.

> 50 to 55C, which seems normal enough. Could I have something 
> misconfigured in  the kernel?


Well I'm going to share a problem I have right now. If you suffer from it,
it could affect a myriad of different applications with different symptoms.
I do not know if this will help you, but it's work checking into. 


Eselect news list 2015-3-28 lists "True multilib support on amd64"

For me, I run a simple profile:  [1]   default/linux/amd64/13.0 *

Because I run lxde and have experimented with several other minimalistic
desktops, including lxqt. Currently, I run lxde. If I emerge with the --deep
option, I get so much breakage that 3000 lines of scrollback is not enough
to get to the head of the problem. Many errors contain the common string
"abi_x86_32" which is central to the aforementioned news item. I have read
this news item many times, tried many ideas, and still have this phantom
problem.   I can delete some packages had at the update, hours to days,
get it cleaned up to where -D works and a couple of emerge --syncs later
the problem reappears. Global update without (-D) --deep are just fine.


I have no idea if this "phantom issue" relates to yours or not. I have
hesitated to post about it, because in  a decade of gentoo usage (and there
have been some ruff patches to say the least) I have never experienced a
transient recurring problem like this.   I think I need a much longer
version of that news item and some cook_book syntax to fixing these
(phantom) multilb issues on my amd64 systems that I am experiencing. 

Some simple questions::

1. How do you test if indeed a system is multilib?
2. Can a system be change, readily, from multilib to not and then back?
3. Is a more specific profile needed for one where you intend to 
run only a minimalist (lxqt) desktop (than what I listed above)?


Note:: My ultimate goal is minimal desktops (lxqt) on most  systems and
excess  resources pledged (dynamically) to a meso cluster underneath my
gentoo systems.


Comments and guidance are warmly appreciated.
Peter I'm not trying to hijack your thread, but enquire as to commonality.

hth,
James
"



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-27 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-27 11:59 [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe Peter Humphrey
2015-05-27 12:31 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2015-05-27 13:02   ` Alan McKinnon
2015-05-27 13:09     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2015-05-27 13:21 ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-27 14:16   ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-27 20:40     ` Mick
2015-05-28  0:01       ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-28 12:44         ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-28 13:49           ` Todd Goodman
2015-05-28 14:36           ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-28 17:03             ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-28 23:51               ` Rich Freeman
2015-05-29  0:10                 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-29  8:25                   ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-29  9:13               ` Stephan Müller
2015-05-29  9:36                 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-29 15:19                   ` Mick
2015-05-29 15:28                     ` Alan Grimes
2015-05-29 15:54                       ` Mick
2015-05-29 23:20                         ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-30  9:00                           ` Neil Bothwick
2015-05-30 11:49                           ` Mick
2015-05-30 15:43                             ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-31  0:39                               ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-31 12:18                                 ` Mick
2015-05-31 14:01                                   ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-31 14:25                                     ` Mick
2015-05-30  7:53                         ` Alan McKinnon
2015-05-30  9:50                           ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-29 15:36                     ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-29 16:02                       ` Mick
2015-06-01 17:28                         ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-27 23:40     ` Peter Humphrey
2015-05-27 18:38 ` James [this message]
2015-05-27 20:09   ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2015-05-27 20:31     ` Mick
2015-05-27 21:25       ` James

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