Peter Humphrey <peter <at> prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: > > Hello list, > > Over the last few weeks I've been having odd things go bump in the night. > This is a KDE amd64 system with /usr under / and no initrd.
> 50 to 55C, which seems normal enough. Could I have something > misconfigured in the kernel? Well I'm going to share a problem I have right now. If you suffer from it, it could affect a myriad of different applications with different symptoms. I do not know if this will help you, but it's work checking into. Eselect news list 2015-3-28 lists "True multilib support on amd64" For me, I run a simple profile: [1] default/linux/amd64/13.0 * Because I run lxde and have experimented with several other minimalistic desktops, including lxqt. Currently, I run lxde. If I emerge with the --deep option, I get so much breakage that 3000 lines of scrollback is not enough to get to the head of the problem. Many errors contain the common string "abi_x86_32" which is central to the aforementioned news item. I have read this news item many times, tried many ideas, and still have this phantom problem. I can delete some packages had at the update, hours to days, get it cleaned up to where -D works and a couple of emerge --syncs later the problem reappears. Global update without (-D) --deep are just fine. I have no idea if this "phantom issue" relates to yours or not. I have hesitated to post about it, because in a decade of gentoo usage (and there have been some ruff patches to say the least) I have never experienced a transient recurring problem like this. I think I need a much longer version of that news item and some cook_book syntax to fixing these (phantom) multilb issues on my amd64 systems that I am experiencing. Some simple questions:: 1. How do you test if indeed a system is multilib? 2. Can a system be change, readily, from multilib to not and then back? 3. Is a more specific profile needed for one where you intend to run only a minimalist (lxqt) desktop (than what I listed above)? Note:: My ultimate goal is minimal desktops (lxqt) on most systems and excess resources pledged (dynamically) to a meso cluster underneath my gentoo systems. Comments and guidance are warmly appreciated. Peter I'm not trying to hijack your thread, but enquire as to commonality. hth, James "
