Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks to all of you who have tried to help me. As it turned out, comparing MD5 sum is intractable, /usr/lib64 alone contained more than 500,000 files ! The /etc tree didn't show significant differences. So, I resorted to keep my 4 cores busy over the weekend to re-emerge the whole machine.

[gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- kde-authentication-agent-1 segmentation fault. On the other machine there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Good day, Helmut! On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 03:42:35PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Nearly identical is a bit like slightly pregnant. How about making

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 15:42:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit-

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Blakawk
On Tue, 17 May 2011 17:52:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 15:42:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Leonardo Guilherme
Leonardo 2011/5/17 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Stroller
On 17/5/2011, at 4:52pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: ... What you want to do is: find the bug. Or, y'know: just `emerge -e world` and see if it goes away. I know this is a bit of brute force ignorance, but: 1) if the bug goes away when you recompile everything then it was a difficult bug

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 17:57:42 Blakawk wrote: As far as i remember, i don't see why modification times will enter in the md5sum computation process, as they are not part of the file but of the filesystem's inode... it's definitely possible to compare two binaries on two different system