Gnome wasn't the problem, hal was the problem. The error that came back
was couldn't calculate Linux version. I submitted this to bugzilla and
got some sarcastic email back from what was evidently one of the
developers claiming what I had listed as an error message wasn't even a
real error message. Unfortunately for that developer, the script program
does exist and I used it to good effect.
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Christopher Covington wrote:
I've never known emerge to not give an error message, although the
root cause of compile errors that happen now and again are usually
above my head.
To the best of my knowledge, Gentoo has no system monitoring program
or automagic bug reporting application. They do however run bugzilla
at bugs.gentoo.org (multi-word searches require javascript). My
experience with the Gentoo bugzilla is that it is rather effective at
solving many problems, if slow to implement less dire fixes.
Emerge does have a --resume flag. I'm also curious as to how failing
to emerge gnopernicus "broke the install." Was it a dependency of
gnome and therefore gnome could not be emerged (and therefore a
"complete system" installed)? Emerge --resume --skipfirst can skip a
broken package and move on to the rest of the list.
On 10/16/06, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Admitedly I stressed the installer by trying to do an emerge of
gnopernicus on it along with other packages. Nonetheless, I don't think
that throwing an exception because a package couldn't be downloaded and as
a result of that thrown exception leaving the install in a broken state
was all that useful either. Probably all linux installers that will
depend on the internet to be a source of packages should have a --resume
switch that can be used with them so that if a site is down or unavailable
another installation attempt can be made later. The problem is no clear
reason for throwing that exception was given, so it could just as easily
be the file for download no longer exists either in that directory; the
file was renamed, or the file no longer exists on that site. As things
stand, I have no way of knowing and neither do the people who wrote the
installer since they did not collect bug information and information about
the computer as well as what was trying to be emerged and from where from
my computer automatically. The internet connection certainly was open,
it's just that the capture never happened. So much for emerge; I've had
occassion to use yum in my time and slaptget and aptitude on different
flavors of Linux I've had installed here over the years and I'm not
impressed with emerge at all. I have a subscription to slackware, so do
support the Linux community on some level at least but I don't plan on any
gentoo donations any time in the near future at least. It would be a
questionable investment at best and an outright loss otherwise.
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