On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:12:50PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:58, Andy Smith wrote: > > Does anyone have any more ideas? > > Check /var/log/emerge.log and post all the packages that were upgraded since > the last time you used portage without problems. We can then go on from > there.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] andy]$ grep '>>> emerge.*of 109' /var/log/emerge.log 1063758884: >>> emerge (1 of 109) sys-devel/gnuconfig-20030708 to / 1063758912: >>> emerge (2 of 109) sys-libs/db-1.85-r1 to / 1063758974: >>> emerge (3 of 109) sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.0-r5 to / 1063759058: >>> emerge (4 of 109) sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1 to / 1063759530: >>> emerge (5 of 109) sys-apps/sed-4.0.7 to / 1063759624: >>> emerge (6 of 109) sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r4 to / 1063760209: >>> emerge (7 of 109) sys-apps/texinfo-4.6 to / 1063760354: >>> emerge (8 of 109) sys-apps/groff-1.18.1-r3 to / 1063760637: >>> emerge (9 of 109) sys-apps/cronbase-0.2.1-r2 to / 1063760665: >>> emerge (10 of 109) sys-apps/man-1.5m to / 1063760739: >>> emerge (11 of 109) dev-java/java-config-0.2.8-r2 to / 1063760767: >>> emerge (12 of 109) dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1 to / 1063760913: >>> emerge (13 of 109) sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2 to / 1063761476: >>> emerge (14 of 109) sys-libs/zlib-1.1.4-r1 to / 1063761518: >>> emerge (15 of 109) dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 to / 1063761552: >>> emerge (16 of 109) sys-apps/bzip2-1.0.2-r2 to / 1063761602: >>> emerge (17 of 109) sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r4 to / 1063762060: >>> emerge (18 of 109) sys-apps/debianutils-1.16.7-r3 to / 1063762093: >>> emerge (19 of 109) app-shells/bash-2.05b-r7 to / 1063762346: >>> emerge (20 of 109) sys-libs/readline-4.3-r4 to / 1063762446: >>> emerge (21 of 109) dev-libs/expat-1.95.6-r1 to / 1063762520: >>> emerge (22 of 109) dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r1 to / 1063763110: >>> emerge (23 of 109) sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r4 to / 1063763177: >>> emerge (24 of 109) sys-devel/libperl-5.8.0 to / 1063763655: >>> emerge (25 of 109) dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 to / 1063765366: >>> emerge (26 of 109) sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.6-r3 to / 1063766107: >>> emerge (27 of 109) sys-apps/gawk-3.1.3 to / 1063766224: >>> emerge (28 of 109) sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1 to / 1063766343: >>> emerge (29 of 109) sys-devel/m4-1.4 to / 1063766381: >>> emerge (30 of 109) sys-devel/autoconf-2.57-r1 to / 1063766410: >>> emerge (31 of 109) sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5 to / 1063766433: >>> emerge (32 of 109) sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3-r1 to / 1063766442: >>> emerge (33 of 109) sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.3-r1 to / 1063766452: >>> emerge (34 of 109) sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r7 to / 1063766467: >>> emerge (35 of 109) sys-devel/bison-1.875 to / 1063766565: >>> emerge (36 of 109) sys-devel/gcc-3.3.1-r1 to / Hmm. So it's quite likely that gcc is the culprit here. Yet that newly installed gcc does seem to work; I can compile things. Shall I download the source for an earlier version of gcc and compile and install it within my home directory, then try to use it to compile python and see if it makes a difference? Alternatively it could be binutils? Really scared about leaving myself with no working gcc/binutils though. > > If I end up having to reinstall > > the OS I probably will not be putting gentoo back, as it took me 4 > > days to have it working exactly as I would like and I can't spare > > that sort of time right now. > > I have to have a whinge about this. Many people ask for help and then end it > with saying, "if you can't help, i'm gonna leave!" Well, I didn't quite say that. I was just expressing my reasons for not wanting to completely reinstall, which I could see many people thinking would be the easiest option. > To be perfectly honest, > every time I see something like this, I get the inclination to not help the > person at all. It is totally unrelated to the problem and therefore > unnecessary. I could say a lot more but I'd just be repeating myself... This isn't really unrelated to my problem. If I had 4 days spare then I would probably reinstall. Also related is the fact that this is my desktop machine which I need to do my work on, and recently one of its (two) P3 700 CPUs died, so if I did start again I'd be recompiling everything with half the CPU power. I see what you're saying though. I agree that when you see people say things like "if no one can help me then I'm going back to windows" or something then you just think, "go back to windows then!" I just meant to show that I'm willing to try anything no matter how wacky in the hope of being able to recover from here without a total reinstall. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
