Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: >> On 25 Feb 2017, at 14:19, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> >> I've attached a hefty log of some 4000 lines and hope someone will be >> patient enough to try to identify what is causing the problem. > > I took a look at this, but the broken colour codes throughout the > log make it quite hard to read.
Thanks for taking the time ... It was asking quite a lot. > Example at the beginning: [32;01m * > Example from the end: * > > Output to the terminal these would show the text in different colours, > but the output was redirected to a textfile or mishandled in a > copy-paste operation (not sure if screen or tmux does this?). > > Running emerge with `--color n` would have made this log much more > readable. Its size already makes it hard to search. Yes, and I am sorry about that, its just that I could not discern what parts were important. Still I should have posted only the last 400-500 lines. Just so you know... I did try that. [--color n] The resulting log looked exactly the same. I posted that fact in an earlier request for help a week or so ago in which I remarked how using the no-color emerge option didn't seem to make a bit of difference. I don't expect anyone would have noticed the comment... but it does seem a bit off that I see no differernce here. That is, no difference in the actual log emerge creates. I do see the difference in the terminal output. You mentioned `screen' and I am working in a screen terminal. What you see is the actual log emerge left behind, when the emerge failed. Not something copy/pasted. I'm working on something to remove all that bunk. When I get to it, I will post a much reduced version with no escapes. And only including the last 400 lines or so. My biggest trouble is that I just don't see anything looking like a clue that I recognize as such.... in those logs. I'm not really up on how terminals decode that stuff, But when I do a `cat' on those logs... into my screen terminal... I see the highlighted text... no escapes. Makes it a bit hard to see what my perl script is trying to remove... hehe.
