On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Elijah Mark Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, April 19, 2018 12:23:32 PM CDT Mick wrote:
>> On Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:44:40 BST Elijah Mark Anderson wrote:
>> > A friend has commissioned me to install Gentoo on one of their machines
>> > for
>> > them. I'm trying to run some final updates before I turn it back over to
>> > them, but it keeps hanging on plasma-desktop-5.12.4 after linking
>> > kcm_fontinst.so (see attachment).
>> >
>> > Anyone know what's going wrong? Is this just a bug in the ebuild, maybe?
>>
>> Your log shows no error. I had a look for bug reports, but couldn't find
>> anything relevant. If it reports no error, have you waited long enough for
>> the emerge to complete?
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Mick
>
> Sorry about the late reply. Life got a little busy for a bit there. I no-
> longer have the machine in question. But a few days later, the owner of the
> machine tried syncing the mirrors and updating again, and it went through.
>
> I would certainly hope I waited long enough... considering that when I tried
> again, I left it running all night just in-case. lol. Thanks for trying. :)
>
This is what happened for me. Plasma was experiencing errors, I lost
interest, I tried again, plasma was not experiencing build errors.
Works for things besides Plasma as well!
Open source has taught me patience on the span of years. I wish it
were not necessary, of course.
Cheers,
R0b0t1
