Re: [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?

2023-02-14 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 08:57:48PM -0500, Michael Cook wrote > On 2/14/23 20:47, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > >Am I missing something obvious that would cause problems? > > > You're missing a lot of manual busy work you would have to do > maintaining a package.provided since packages depend on

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?

2023-02-14 Thread Michael Cook
On 2/14/23 20:47, Walter Dnes wrote: A whole bunch of busy-work for emerge, and nothing in the news item indicates it's really necessary for the average user. Howsabout... * manually zapping with "rm -rf /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-alternatives" * and then include "app-alternatives" in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?

2023-02-14 Thread David Rosenbaum
Dave On Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 20:47 Walter Dnes wrote: > A whole bunch of busy-work for emerge, and nothing in the news item > indicates it's really necessary for the average user. Howsabout... > > * manually zapping with "rm -rf /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-alternatives" > * and then include

[gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?

2023-02-14 Thread Walter Dnes
A whole bunch of busy-work for emerge, and nothing in the news item indicates it's really necessary for the average user. Howsabout... * manually zapping with "rm -rf /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-alternatives" * and then include "app-alternatives" in the file pointed to by

Re: [gentoo-user] my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting

2023-02-14 Thread John Covici
On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:25:55 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 2:54 PM John Covici wrote: > > > > On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:08:34 -0500, > > Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > > > will be displayed on the console briefly. You can also enable a > > > network console, which will send

Re: [gentoo-user] my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting

2023-02-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 2:54 PM John Covici wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:08:34 -0500, > Rich Freeman wrote: >> > > will be displayed on the console briefly. You can also enable a > > network console, which will send the dmesg output continuously over > > UDP to another device. > > OK, how

Re: [gentoo-user] my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting

2023-02-14 Thread John Covici
On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:08:34 -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 9:08 AM John Covici wrote: > > > > Hi. So, foolish me, I decided to go from a working 5.10.155 system to > > try latest lts of 5.15 which is 5.15.93. Compile, install went well, > > but the system keeps

Re: [gentoo-user] my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting

2023-02-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 9:08 AM John Covici wrote: > > Hi. So, foolish me, I decided to go from a working 5.10.155 system to > try latest lts of 5.15 which is 5.15.93. Compile, install went well, > but the system keeps rebooting. It gets all the way and even starts > the local services and

[gentoo-user] my 5.15.93 kernel keeps rebooting

2023-02-14 Thread John Covici
Hi. So, foolish me, I decided to go from a working 5.10.155 system to try latest lts of 5.15 which is 5.15.93. Compile, install went well, but the system keeps rebooting. It gets all the way and even starts the local services and then here are the last few lines, which may be relevant or not: