Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-15 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:22:09 AM Alan Grimes wrote: My machine is so completely broken right now I can't open any new terminal sessions. This is because I stupidly tried to toggle tinfo useflag in a desperate attempt to get everything in my portage tree working again. Why now did

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 20:42:20 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of junk running. =( So you either need less hacks in make.conf or more talent, you decide which... -- Neil Bothwick BBS: (n.) a system for connecting computers and

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, April 11, 2015 08:42:20 PM Alan Grimes wrote: Andreas K. Huettel wrote: snipped 2. LD cannot find ncurses, -- It simply can't, in 64 bit mode either. That is the only error message it ever gives and vast amount of effort spent in sessions over the last year and a half have

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Sonntag, 12. April 2015, 02:42:20 schrieb Alan Grimes: /etc/portage # emerge --info [[: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Failed to validate a sane '/dev'. bash

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 April 2015 21:27:39 Alan Grimes wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Why don't you just start again from scratch, following the official docs? You don't need to override every little setting; portage knows best, just like your Ma. Use the force... Well, emptytree world seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:41:28 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled. ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in exactly one place: /etc/portage/make.conf and nowhere else. But, nevertheless, ABI_x86 WAS set which broke the profile because my

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:22:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: And then portage did two things. 1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that go. 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled. ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Alan, 1. My machine is not correctly configured to build 32 bit executables, mainly because I cannot find a 32 bit version of ncurses that ld is willing to acknowledge the existence of. This seems to be working for just about everyone else.

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:22:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: And then portage did two things. 1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that go. 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled. ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in exactly one place:

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Mick
On Saturday 11 Apr 2015 15:34:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:22:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: And then portage did two things. 1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that go. 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit

[gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
My machine is so completely broken right now I can't open any new terminal sessions. This is because I stupidly tried to toggle tinfo useflag in a desperate attempt to get everything in my portage tree working again. Why now did nothing in my portage tree build? It wasn't building for two

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:22:09 AM Alan Grimes wrote: Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out the changes to

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 April 2015 10:22:09 Alan Grimes wrote: Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out the changes to portage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Hi Alan, 1. My machine is not correctly configured to build 32 bit executables, mainly because I cannot find a 32 bit version of ncurses that ld is willing to acknowledge the existence of. This seems to be working for just about everyone else. So maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 April 2015 20:42:20 Alan Grimes wrote: Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of junk running. Just don't bother, and save the rest of us some earache. [Apologies to those who recognised the troll.) -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:22:09 AM Alan Grimes wrote: Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 11 April 2015 10:22:09 Alan Grimes wrote: Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Dale
Alan Grimes wrote: Andreas K. Huettel wrote: If you kept your system updated all the time, you shouldnt have any problems. Byte me. Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of junk running. =( I'm the user here, I am not going to take any lip from you about how I