Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging
the xfce window manager. I "solved" this by emerging Openbox instead.
Then I got another compiler segfault whilst emerging firefox (yes, I
know there's a binary for this).
Then, on somebody's advice (not fully understood), I did
# emerge -e gcc
, to try and get a consistent working gcc. This crashed. I repeated
the invocation, and it crashed more quickly. :-(
At this point, I thought, just reload "everything" from the stage3, with
# cd / ; bunzip2 /stage3-amd64-20100121.tar.gz
, which didn't help either. I emerged gentoolkit, to see if I could get
some handle on the mess. Then
# revdep-rebuild -p
threw a segfault.
At this point, I'm feeling a bit sad. My rough guess is that there's
some conflict somewhere between 32-bit and 64-bit code, and some of my
USE flags are inconsistent with some others, or the kernel, or something
like that.
One other thing I remember vaguely is that early on, some emerge told me
I had to "revdep-rebuild" something. I wasn't able to do this through
not yet knowing what "revdep-rebuild" meant, and not having any file of
that name on my system. Could this be the cause?
Finally, is there a way of reloading/rebuilding ALL the executables
onto/on my system without discarding all my painfully wrought config
files and without portage getting confused?
Thanks in advance for the help!
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
