Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: >> >>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:14:26 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >>> >>>> So is it now an appropriate time for me to run an >>>> >>>> emerge -e world >>> >>> It shouldn't do any harm. >>> >>>> I do not mind taking this machine offline for the few days of the >>>> emerge. >>> >>> There's no need for that, just set PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 in make.conf. You >>> may want to run emerge -ef world first to make sure all files you need >>> are in $DISTDIR. >> >> thanks, >> allan >> > > Hi Allan, > I admit to being a bit confused at this point. You ran the > lafilefixer suggestion and said it fixed things. Did that step > actually fix your libssl problem?
I "fixed" that problem by copying over the missing files from another system. > I guess you also ran fsck as it's a good thing to do once in awhile > anyway. That's cool. > > It seems, however, that you're still going down the path of emerge > -e @world. Why is that? If it's just to be confident that everything > is back to the way it should be then I understand that. I've done it > myself many times in the last 12 years. Yes that is the reason. > Just trying to get a handle on what the actual solution is vs all > the other things going on in the thread! :-) Thanks for the concern and help. allan
