Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-15 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:22:09 AM Alan Grimes wrote: > My machine is so completely broken right now I can't open any new > terminal sessions. > > This is because I stupidly tried to toggle tinfo useflag in a desperate > attempt to get everything in my portage tree working again. > > Why now

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 April 2015 21:27:39 Alan Grimes wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Why don't you just start again from scratch, following the official docs? > > You don't need to override every little setting; portage knows best, just > > like your Ma. Use the force... > > Well, emptytree world see

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Sonntag, 12. April 2015, 02:42:20 schrieb Alan Grimes: > > /etc/portage # emerge --info > [[: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > Failed to validate a sane '/dev'. > ba

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 20:42:20 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of junk > running. =( So you either need less hacks in make.conf or more talent, you decide which... -- Neil Bothwick BBS: (n.) a system for connecting computers and excha

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, April 11, 2015 08:42:20 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > 2. LD cannot find ncurses, -- It simply can't, in 64 bit mode either. > > > That is the only error message it ever gives and vast amount of effort > > > spent in sessions over the last year and a half ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Dale
Alan Grimes wrote: > Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > >> If you kept your system updated all the time, you shouldnt have any >> problems. > Byte me. > > Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of junk > running. =( I'm the user here, I am not going to take any lip from you > abo

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 11 April 2015 10:22:09 Alan Grimes wrote: > >> Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 >> packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do >> that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:22:09 AM Alan Grimes wrote: >> Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 >> packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do >> that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 April 2015 20:42:20 Alan Grimes wrote: > Linux is crap, it takes all the talent I have to keep this piece of junk > running. Just don't bother, and save the rest of us some earache. [Apologies to those who recognised the troll.) -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > > 1. My machine is not correctly configured to build 32 bit executables, > > mainly because I cannot find a 32 bit version of ncurses that ld is > > willing to acknowledge the existence of. > > This seems to be working for just about everyone else. So mayb

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 11 April 2015 10:22:09 Alan Grimes wrote: > Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 > packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do > that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out > the changes to portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Saturday, April 11, 2015 10:22:09 AM Alan Grimes wrote: > Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 > packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do > that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out > the changes to por

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:41:28 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit > >> enabled. ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in exactly one place: > >> /etc/portage/make.conf and nowhere else. But, nevertheless, ABI_x86 > >> WAS set which broke the profile

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Alan, > 1. My machine is not correctly configured to build 32 bit executables, > mainly because I cannot find a 32 bit version of ncurses that ld is > willing to acknowledge the existence of. This seems to be working for just about everyone els

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:22:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> And then portage did two things. >> >> 1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that >> go. >> >> 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled. >> ALARM: ABI_x86 s

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Mick
On Saturday 11 Apr 2015 15:34:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:22:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > > And then portage did two things. > > > > 1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that > > go. > > > > 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 w

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:22:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > And then portage did two things. > > 1. It masked emul-linux -- A move that I support, it's time to see that > go. > > 2. It sent out a profile that sets variable ABI_x86 with 32 bit enabled. > ALARM: ABI_x86 should be set in exactly one p

[gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-11 Thread Alan Grimes
My machine is so completely broken right now I can't open any new terminal sessions. This is because I stupidly tried to toggle tinfo useflag in a desperate attempt to get everything in my portage tree working again. Why now did nothing in my portage tree build? It wasn't building for two reason