Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo falling apart for me after either abandoning trying to install Kolab as overlay - or after upgrading to default/linux/x86/10.0

2009-11-05 Thread Steve 

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
yes, don't use locate. Also check the symlinks. Reset them with eselect gcc if 
you have to.


Then try all your emerges with --tree you get a lot more helpfull output. 
Also, when a dependency is missing revdep-rebuilt loves to fail. You can hunt 
that down with --tree or just re--emerging the stuff.
  
Thanks very much, it looks as if eselect gcc was where I needed to 
start.  I've had to re-build gcc and then revdep-rebuild worked, and I'm 
working through emerge -uDNav world - which seems to be running more 
smoothly.


I was surprised that I managed to get into such a mess so easily... but 
I seem to be back on track now.


Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo falling apart for me after either abandoning trying to install Kolab as overlay - or after upgrading to default/linux/x86/10.0

2009-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann 
On Donnerstag 05 November 2009, Steve wrote:
 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
  yes, don't use locate. Also check the symlinks. Reset them with eselect
  gcc if you have to.
 
  Then try all your emerges with --tree you get a lot more helpfull output.
  Also, when a dependency is missing revdep-rebuilt loves to fail. You can
  hunt that down with --tree or just re--emerging the stuff.
 
 Thanks very much, it looks as if eselect gcc was where I needed to
 start.  I've had to re-build gcc and then revdep-rebuild worked, and I'm
 working through emerge -uDNav world - which seems to be running more
 smoothly.
 
 I was surprised that I managed to get into such a mess so easily... but
 I seem to be back on track now.
 
 Thanks.
 

depclean can mess up your system. That is one of many good reasons to use the 
buildpkg option. No matter how hosed your system is, with buildpkg you get it 
back into a working state without much trouble.