Mark Knecht writes: > On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> > wrote: > > Mark Knecht writes: > > > >> Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a > >> copy of the output for bad times. > >> > >> https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv > > > > That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line 305 it > > tries and fails to create /dev/block, which is already existing. > > > > if not os.path.exists('/dev/block'): > > os.mkdir('/dev/block', 0755) > > > > Uh, is this a python bug? It works fine with python 2.7, but not with > > 3.2. But os.path.exists() is quite a basic function, if that wouldn't > > work, I'd expect all things to break, including emerge. > > > > Nice script. Much similar to lshw I think, but it shows more stuff, > > like LVM names and UUIDS. Thanks!
> Dunno about the python-3.2 thing. Are you set to use 3.2 by default? > (How aggressive of you!) ;-) I'm set to use 2.7 as default which I > think is the overall recommendation of dummies like me: Portage should work well with 3.2 now, but I wouldn't wonder much if something would break. I don't mind much about this, when it happens I file a bug report, and use 2.7 again. But the problem with os.path.exists() seems weird to me. > c2stable ~ # eselect python list > Available Python interpreters: > [1] python2.7 * > [2] python3.2 > c2stable ~ # > > The script has been around awhile and updated now and again. Possibly > it's just not tested with python-3.2? I guess so. Hmm, does anybody want to provide an ebuild on bugs.gentoo.org for it? It would be nice to have it in portage. Wonko