Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-17 Thread maxim wexler
--- Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/15/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kernel panic! That's what happens. Why? Is it because it couldn't find your root device? Did it detect your hard drives correctly on boot? Or was it because it found your root, but failed

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
That's an uncalled-for and hateful remark, besides being disingenuous. Some of the details of masking are obscure and judging from other commentary on this list, this is intentional. Or at least somewhat prized by the local experts. I do read documentation, but I have a low tolerance for

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-17 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/17/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has gotta be the problem. Or most of it. I've been going along all this time separately mounting a /boot partition, formatted ext2 and a root partitiion, formatted reiserfs which already has a boot dir attached. Is that the one that actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/15/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kernel panic! That's what happens. Why? Is it because it couldn't find your root device? Did it detect your hard drives correctly on boot? Or was it because it found your root, but failed to mount it? Or is it something completely

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-15 Thread maxim wexler
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 14 May 2006, maxim wexler wrote: Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I created a franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to get me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the feeling they think I'm making stuff up. --- Kevin

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Thanks. That worked for me. I knew there should be something simple that I didn't know yet. Sorry if my ranting annoyed anybody. ++ kevinOn 5/13/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I really need this thing.I want it to be stable.But sorry,

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 14 May 2006 17:15, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Thanks. That worked for me. I knew there should be something simple that I didn't know yet. Sorry if my ranting annoyed anybody. maybe you should start reading the documentation? Everything about the different forms of masking and how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread maxim wexler
Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I created a franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to get me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the feeling they think I'm making stuff up. --- Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rant The folks who work the gentoo bugzilla do us an

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread stupendoussteve
On Sun, 14 May 2006, maxim wexler wrote: Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I created a franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to get me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the feeling they think I'm making stuff up. --- Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, they

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread Alexander Skwar
maxim wexler wrote: Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I created a franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to get me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the feeling they think I'm making stuff up. No, that's not how it sounds like. It sounds like they don't understand how that

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/14/06, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I created a franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to get me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the feeling they think I'm making stuff up. No, maxim. Most likely, YOU have made a mistake

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 14 May 2006 20:31, maxim wexler wrote: Tell me about it! Have a look at #132141. I created a franken-kernel and their strategy seems to be to get me to repeat myself until I go away. I get the feeling they think I'm making stuff up. no, very obviously they try to help and YOU fail

[gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
rant The folks who work the gentoo bugzilla do us an enormous service, and I suppose they're too busy to say more than they must in these communications, but it sure gets frustrating. I really need this thing. I want it to be stable. But sorry, the old one can't be built any more, and the new one

Re: [gentoo-user] Grrr: gentoo form of dependency hell was: [Bug 129864]

2006-05-13 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really need this thing. I want it to be stable. But sorry, the old one can't be built any more, and the new one is masked. So I'm just out of luck. snip Clear-Text: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129864 Secure: