On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 2:55 PM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Elijah Mark Anderson <m...@kd0bpv.name> > wrote: > > On Thursday, April 19, 2018 12:23:32 PM CDT Mick wrote: > >> On Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:44:40 BST Elijah Mark Anderson wrote: > >> > A friend has commissioned me to install Gentoo on one of their > machines > >> > for > >> > them. I'm trying to run some final updates before I turn it back over > to > >> > them, but it keeps hanging on plasma-desktop-5.12.4 after linking > >> > kcm_fontinst.so (see attachment). > >> > > >> > Anyone know what's going wrong? Is this just a bug in the ebuild, > maybe? > >> > >> Your log shows no error. I had a look for bug reports, but couldn't > find > >> anything relevant. If it reports no error, have you waited long enough > for > >> the emerge to complete? > >> > >> -- > >> Regards, > >> Mick > > > > Sorry about the late reply. Life got a little busy for a bit there. I no- > > longer have the machine in question. But a few days later, the owner of > the > > machine tried syncing the mirrors and updating again, and it went > through. > > > > I would certainly hope I waited long enough... considering that when I > tried > > again, I left it running all night just in-case. lol. Thanks for trying. > :) > > > > This is what happened for me. Plasma was experiencing errors, I lost > interest, I tried again, plasma was not experiencing build errors. > Works for things besides Plasma as well! > > Open source has taught me patience on the span of years. I wish it > were not necessary, of course. > > Cheers, > R0b0t1 > > Or, it could be the fact that the patch and solution to the problem I posted to this very thread was applied downstream: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/diff/?id=4b2a7ee17866dd768651b51cd6640f39506a8469. That might have saved you some time.
