On 12/21/20 5:33 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm trying to update world on a new install. I can emerge the > occasional app like syslog-ng or whatever following the Gentoo install > manual. But when I try to update world, all hell breaks loose. > Appended output from... > > emerge -p --changed-use -deep --update @world > /dev/shm/log.txt 2>&1 > > I've bzipped the output for attachment... yes it's *THAT* bad. >
You seem to be missing a dash on --deep, which has the unfortunate consequence of being parsed as -d -e -e -p instead. -d enables debug mode (hence the ludicrously long output), and -e is short for --emptytree which is almost certainly not what you wanted to do here. Try --deep instead. Cal
