Good day, Helmut! On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 03:42:35PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi,
> I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- > to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. "Nearly identical" is a bit like "slightly pregnant". How about making the two boxes' packages identical (with the same use flags) and seeing if the problem goes away. > Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- > kde-authentication-agent-1 segmentation fault. > On the other machine there is no problem. > How can one smartly compare two Gentoo installations. > Currently I would have to produce an md5sum of all files in > /etc /usr /var and / and compare these. But there are dozens of > thousands of files in these directories. Compare the /var/lib/portage/world's just to be sure. But you've done that already. How about a deep comparison of the etc's. > Many thanks for any ideas, > Helmut. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
