Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2005, 08:12 +0200 schrieb Bob Alexander:
> Dear friends,
> trying out Gentoo after many years (mostly) on Debian.
> 
> Q1) I wanted to use the swsusp2 patch to the kernel. emerged a package 
> and in fact it was an entirely new kernel tree with the patches 
> included. The swsusp2 patches are not at the latest level and I am 
> having problems (kernel oops) with this when suspending. What is the 
> correct way to deinstall this second kernel tree, obtain the swsusp2 
> patches only (I would know how to do that manually of course).
> 
> Q2) I now have a nice bootsplash upon booting but the shutdown process 
> is not shown (black screen and then poweroff). What's up ?
> 
> Q3) When emerging packages I get a message saying something like /etc 42 
> files need fixing (or similar do not have the machine here to try). What 
> should I actually do ? Why this message ?

I guess you have to run etc-update here. Some emerged packages would
like to change certain /etc files (i.e. configurations).  etc-update
will let you do that in a more or less save way.

> 
> Thank you very much,
> Bob
> 
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