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
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
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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
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...
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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
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
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
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
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.)
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Peter
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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