-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan E. Davis wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Eric Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> WRT emerge -e world I had a few problems where glibc wouldn't build and >> tracking down the cause of that fixed my other problems. Could be >> coincidence, could be related. I rebuilt the toolchain once or twice to get >> glib going again, recompiled and my problems were solved. >> > > Do you mind to explain a little more? How would I go about this? I have a > few packages that won't build, and glib is one. Over and over. gtkmm is > another. There is an upstream gtkmm that is said to solve that issue, but I > haven't gotten the courage to bump an ebuild to a new version. > > How would one rebuild the toolchain? > > >> You say it works as root. This is a stretch but it's wicked easy and >> should be tried: try killing your profile. it's as easy as renaming >> .mozilla so firefox creates a new one next boot. If it's still broken it >> only wasted a minute, and if it works you're not banging your head >> needlessly and later on. > > > I have tried it as three different users, and have moved .mozilla, used > firefox2, firefox3, firefox3-bin, epiphany. The same thing happens. Moving > .mozilla has no effect.hem > > My system has been riddled with these issues of permissions and (I assume) > dbus and/or hal issues, since when. The livecd was a mess: took several > passes even to get a working, booting system. It's getting better. > > Thank you, > > Alan > Toolchain refers to glibc, gcc, and binutils. Try running
emerge glibc gcc binutils Portage will put them in the correct order. - -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiNoHAACgkQdheOldgSlQhhIACfetPG4fMAMFh9fvFGIyjNDErl J7sAni70XXClPwYsz+Fn6k6R0zMUxjmP =IrWG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
