ouch ... a little scary for a linux newbie ... almost all kde wiped out! from my experience this is not fatal and will not ruin even a fresh kde install ... all is needed is to calm down, put in a list all that deleted entropy packages and reinstall all of it ... the do again a smpsync
if is still some « cannot convert COUNTER » the you need to force delete again offending packages, smpsync and reinstall again then shout out a final spmsync and now entropy + portage is in harmony again ... from my experience at this third spmsync all « cannot convert COUNTER » errors is gone for sure ... i encountered this error from time to time ... but because i played too much with portage custom installs and synced entropy with spmsync in repeated rounds when i stomp over « cannot convert COUNTER » in each cases it was too late for a condensed and comprehensible error report shorter that dr. watson detective stories ... and, ofcourse, me too lazy to try a case reduction hunting session ... but i never encountered so many « cannot convert COUNTER » errors for only one recompiled package, even a big one like gimp, using portage! this is very unusual and i can guess is happening only if gimp portage recompilation pull in a massive portage recompilation of many dependent gimp libraries .... 1. >> ++ (1/3) >>> Adding media-gfx/gimp-2.6.11-r6 2. >> ++ (2/3) >>> Adding media-libs/babl-0.1.6 3. >> ++ (3/3) >>> Adding media-libs/gegl-0.1.8 is really only two libraries recompiled in portage? ======================================= linux is free, but needed expertise to use this little beast is a personal, time consuming, continuous accumulation of knowledge and wasted time can not be rolled back no matter how much money you have selling free software can not bring to you too much money, but USING free software you can make a lot of money like Google ... or IBM your little help to free software development does not bring to you any money but can help you use it more efficiently, so you can make more money ... meanwhile, other users of that little free software program, using your contribution can make more money! nobody loses anything, all those who know how to use a free software program, in continuous evolution, wins registered linux user #352479 2012/8/22 Fabio Erculiani <lx...@sabayon.org> > However, I spent a couple of minutes going through the code and I've found > this: > https://git.sabayon.org/entropy.git/commit/?id=657478b > > -- > Fabio Erculiani > >
