On Sunday 18 January 2004 03:08, Bob White wrote: > > If by portage directories you mean /usr/portage/media-libs/libvorbis, > > then this is hardly surprising. Deleting directories in /usr/portage > > won't help in these situations (or any others for that matter) since they > > only hold the ebuilds and digests of the package. emerge sync fetches > > updates and deletes all stale or modified files. > > I deleted the ones in /var/tmp/portage, too. I'm about to do that for > the qt library now. It's giving me segfaults during compiles. Not sure > what's going on there. I'm about to go back to a blank disk and start > over! <grin>
That won't do much good, unless you did some major screw up in the current install. And even in that case segfaults are usually caused by broken hardware, rather than software issues. Try running memtest86 (it's in portage, or at http://www.memtest86.com). If it displays errors, you've got hardware problems (either the memory or motherboard), if it doesn't, try searching in Gentoo's bugzilla. Of course, if you do have broken hardware, you might consider either reinstalling, or recompiling everything after you've fixed it, since it might have caused some hidden problems in the base packages. (I.e. the packages compiled, but the binaries/libraries have errors in them) -- Jani-Matti H�tinen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
