Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade

2013-01-04 Thread Matthias Hanft
Bruce Hill wrote: Too late, too tired, but do you have: =sys-fs/udev-181 in /etc/portage/package.mask ? Ehm... according to http://packages.gentoo.org/category/sys-fs?full_cat udev-171-r9 is the only stable x86 version, and udev-181 doesn't exist at all?! -Matt (still using 171 because at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade

2013-01-04 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 12:19:09AM -0600, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: The problem is you are trying to downgrade sys-fs/udev but not virtual/udev. If you want to force using udev-171, you need to mask both the real and virtual atoms. Try this in /etc/portage/package.mask/udev:

[gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade

2013-01-04 Thread James
Dustin C. Hatch admiralnemo at gmail.com writes: The problem is you are trying to downgrade sys-fs/udev but not virtual/udev. If you want to force using udev-171, you need to mask both the real and virtual atoms. Try this in /etc/portage/package.mask/udev: =sys-fs/udev-181

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade

2013-01-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:23 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: snip Does this look normal? James Does anything when you are running unstable (~amd64) and then trying to push it toward stable? That's always been difficult and dare I say unsupported. OK, I only run stable so I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade

2013-01-04 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 1/4/2013 10:23, James wrote: Dustin C. Hatch admiralnemo at gmail.com writes: The problem is you are trying to downgrade sys-fs/udev but not virtual/udev. If you want to force using udev-171, you need to mask both the real and virtual atoms. Try this in /etc/portage/package.mask/udev:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade

2013-01-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:52:29 -0600 Dustin C. Hatch admiraln...@gmail.com wrote: You'll probably want to do this in single user mode (i.e. `rc single`), so running programs don't crash suddenly. A reboot afterward is probably a good idea as well. I'm interested in what may crash, do you mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade

2013-01-04 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 1/4/2013 14:31, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:52:29 -0600 Dustin C. Hatch admiraln...@gmail.com wrote: You'll probably want to do this in single user mode (i.e. `rc single`), so running programs don't crash suddenly. A reboot afterward is probably a good idea as well. I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade

2013-01-03 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: So unless somebody can give me good reason, I'm downgrading to udev-171 asap on this (only) system running udev 196... (ps, I like to experiment, but not with udev et. al.) Long night, when you have to answer your own posts. Now I get:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade

2013-01-03 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 02:54:31AM +, James wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: So unless somebody can give me good reason, I'm downgrading to udev-171 asap on this (only) system running udev 196... (ps, I like to experiment, but not with udev et. al.) Long

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev downgrade

2013-01-03 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 1/3/2013 20:54, James wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: So unless somebody can give me good reason, I'm downgrading to udev-171 asap on this (only) system running udev 196... (ps, I like to experiment, but not with udev et. al.) Long night, when you have to answer your