On Saturday, 30 March 2024 19:34:42 CEST Walter Dnes wrote: > Thanks for the help. I've migrated my 3 operating Gentoo machines; > main desktop, backup desktop, and an old used Lenovo Thinkpad X201. The > poor thing was thrashing away for over 18 hours with 657 packages on the > emerge --emptytree!!! And that's after using a homebrew bash script to > select the max available speed on the CPU. "time" output...
What does that script do? > > real 1086m47.440s > > user 1732m29.120s > > sys 146m54.026s > > > > > I got the news item when I ran "emerge --sync". My understanding is > > > that step 1 in the news item says "Please also update your system > > > fully and depclean before proceeding" so I should update world > > > first. > > > > Yes. And depclean. > > I ended up unmerging specific items manually. Depclean is "rather > agressive", and wants to remove all but the latest kernel, *EVEN A > KERNEL THAT I'M CURRENTLY USING*. I'm currently on 6.1.67... Unless you plan on recompiling that kernel, there is no need to actually KEEP the sources. > [x8940][waltdnes][~] eselect kernel list > Available kernel symlink targets: > [1] linux-6.1.57-gentoo > [2] linux-6.1.67-gentoo * > [3] linux-6.6.13-gentoo > [4] linux-6.6.21-gentoo > > I ran into the Intel integrated graphics problem described in... > https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f39-kernel-6-6-x-no-video-on-intel-in > tegrated-graphics/98360 > > His solution... > > > I was filling out the details for a bug report. Under the description, > > it asked if I have tried rawhide. I installed 6.7.0-0.rc4.35.fc40 > > and it fixed the issue! > > This appears to be a bug in the 6.6.x kernels, which is fixed in > 6.7.x. My 2 desktops and the Thinkpad all have integrated Intel > graphics, so I'll sit at 6.1.67 until 6.7.x, or higher, goes stable. > /var/db/repos/gentoo/sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.7.10.ebuild > is already present, but is keyworded "~amd64".
