On 05/12/2021 21:21, Alan Grimes wrote:
I was playing Superliminal the other day and it wasn't doing too well,
probably my GPU is too rusty to run it well, and it took down X11. Which
meant it was time to update packages and reboot....
Biig mistake...
Look, I know a lot of you are in the process of being killed to death by
the slow acting poison known as the covid 19 vaccine. I'm really sorry
about that neither myself nor God can do jack shit about that at this
point.
Let's hope we're not dying from the quick poison known as CoVid-19 (that
said, I do my best to avoid both :-)
I also know that one of the several pathologies the poison inflicts is a
form of brain rot as prion crystals grow and disrupt neural pathways.
=\ It really sucks and I wish things had not gotten to this point.
Portage is actually working, to some extent this time so I am actually a
bit shocked and amazed on that front, it's been ages since it actually
worked decently well.
Just make sure you have a working python !!!
But then a large number of absolutely critical things are now broken.
-> Xosview can't find the font it needs (!!! WTF???? )
-> None of my steam games play anymore.
-> The web browser and mail reader that I've been using since the '90s
won't build or run. I've been reduced to using WEBMAIL FOR GOD'S SAKE!
to post this. I feel unclean.
Well my latest update seems to have fixed Thunderbird (which was
randomly locking up input to the extent it was a Big Red Switch job to
recover ...).
-> Neither python 3.9 nor 3.10 will finish building. It appears they run
some self-tests which fail and then they just freeze up at 0% CPU usage
and I never get any clear diagnostic information.
-> GCC-11.2 feels like it is mostly working but might be responsible for
python failing specific tests as it may have been using trick
optimizations that were hacks to start with but now don't work with the
current GCC which is actually working as advertised.
Do you still have Python 3.8? Can you delete 3.9 and 3.10?
Which gcc is default? can you eselect a newer working gcc than your
current version?
I think one of the root issues is that llvm-13 deprecated several
command line options that broke a number of packages that took a great
many more packages down with them. I first just masked clang-13 but that
doesn't seem to be enough, I also masked llvm-13 and llvm-common-13 and
am running --emptytree world AGAIN.
Well, what I always do then is first an "emerge system" (no extra
options), then an emerge world, then finally an emerge deep newuse
world. Just a little bit each time. Forcing a bit at a time.
The other thing is (as I found out ...) are any default emerge options
screwing you over? I had to comment out my default options to get
virtualbox to emerge update properly, so if you've got any, comment them
out and see if it improves matters ...
I'm going to have more "fun" soon, I think ... I looked at funtoo linux
earlier today, but I think that'll be a no-no - it goes about "wolves
owning their own shit" then craps all over systemd. I get some people
don't like it, but when people say "if you like it we don't want you
here" then I am afraid I don't want to know bigots like that.
I then found SourceMage ... looks very interesting! It's a pretty basic
distro it seems to me, but it also seems to be a distro that doesn't try
to tell its users what to run. So I'll be playing ... and it doesn't
give you all that portage grief! Not that I like the sound of bash ...
:-) but all the basic system tools are written in it. They're very much
"no dependency spaghetti", and that hopefully makes for easier admin...
The only problem is it seems very short-staffed. It's clearly up-to-date
as in there's plenty of recent time stamps, but you have to look for
them as much of the docu is 5, 10 years old ...
Cheers,
Wol
