> On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: > > > > I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo > > installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and > > a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize them > > for running, went in, rebuilt the kernel, and apparently with a bad > > genkernel does not use USE flags, so, that's not related, probably. > Someone will tell if I'm wrong. > > > understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all the > > use flags, changed them to: > > > > USE="-*" > > > > Heh, once I tried that... Its better leave it empty than putting this. > You CAN put "-*", but then you would have to create a fairly large > packages.use in order to get a working system. That includes every > package listed in "emerge -pv world" with an entry. > > Remove that option, start with minimal USE flags and reemerge world. > You're lucky you didn't try emerge -e system after that. > > > and ran emerge -e world. The processes have all failed, and now I have > > broken systems -- for example, eterm wont start at all, nor will it > > build on a re-install, firefox is messed up (the fonts look funny) and > > im starting to panic. Is there any way short of rebuilding these > > systems to get things working right again? > > You're lucky that you still have a working system after all. You even > get a working portage, so, nothing to worry about. Fix your flags and > reemerge world. > > --
[Timothy A. Holmes] Turns out all 5 systems are totally broke - I will be rebuilding all of them -- If anyone can suggest a good set of minimal use flags, I would be most thankful Tim Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- [email protected] mailing list
