Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:41:28 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled. ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in exactly one place: /etc/portage/make.conf and nowhere else. But, nevertheless, ABI_x86 WAS set which broke the profile because my

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:22:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: And then portage did two things. 1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that go. 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled. ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Alan, 1. My machine is not correctly configured to build 32 bit executables, mainly because I cannot find a 32 bit version of ncurses that ld is willing to acknowledge the existence of. This seems to be working for just about everyone else.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is perl broken? [SOLVED]

2015-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 05 April 2015 10:50:53 I wrote: Today's routine update included dev-lang/perl-5.20.2 and two perl virtuals. Since emerging those portage has stopped working: perl-cleaner gives it a list of 71 packages to emerge but portage does nothing with them - it just exits silently. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is perl broken?

2015-04-11 Thread Mick
On Saturday 11 Apr 2015 00:08:23 Peter Humphrey wrote: Back to the original theme, I'd been experimenting with -j and -l make options, and I suspect that was my real problem. I finished up with -j -l20 on this i5 box, with startling results - 56 emerges in parallel for instance. I suspect

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:22:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: And then portage did two things. 1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that go. 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled. ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in exactly one place:

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Mick
On Saturday 11 Apr 2015 15:34:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:22:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: And then portage did two things. 1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that go. 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit

[gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
My machine is so completely broken right now I can't open any new terminal sessions. This is because I stupidly tried to toggle tinfo useflag in a desperate attempt to get everything in my portage tree working again. Why now did nothing in my portage tree build? It wasn't building for two

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:22:09 AM Alan Grimes wrote: Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out the changes to

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 April 2015 10:22:09 Alan Grimes wrote: Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out the changes to portage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Hi Alan, 1. My machine is not correctly configured to build 32 bit executables, mainly because I cannot find a 32 bit version of ncurses that ld is willing to acknowledge the existence of. This seems to be working for just about everyone else. So maybe

[gentoo-user] Re: Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread walt
On 04/11/2015 05:42 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: Byte me. Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of junk running. I'll see your grumpy, and raise you two grumpies :p

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 April 2015 20:42:20 Alan Grimes wrote: Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of junk running. Just don't bother, and save the rest of us some earache. [Apologies to those who recognised the troll.) -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:22:09 AM Alan Grimes wrote: Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 11 April 2015 10:22:09 Alan Grimes wrote: Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Dale
Alan Grimes wrote: Andreas K. Huettel wrote: If you kept your system updated all the time, you shouldnt have any problems. Byte me. Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of junk running. =( I'm the user here, I am not going to take any lip from you about how I