Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Am 08.02.2013 23:54, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> >> On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:45:13 -0600, Dale wrote:
> >>
> >>> Well, switched to a newer gcc, same thing.  Going back to KDE 4.9
> for a
> >>> bit.  They will have it fixed in a couple days.  After all, Linux
> has
> >>> some of the smartest programmers there is.  I'm not sure of some
> users
> >>> tho, myself included.  ;-) 
> >> Changing CFLAGS and rebuilding one package is a lot less work that
> a
> >> complete downgrade.
> > Only if you don't have a backup (which I did before upgrading, but I
> can't be
> > bothered with redoing the upgrade in only a few days, so I'll sit it
> out with
> > Awesome in the meantime). Thankfully, my netbook, which needs very
> many an hour
> > to build KDE, runs x86 and isn't affected.
> 
> Yep.  I rm'd the kde.keyword file and did a emerge -kuv world and down
> went KDE.  Took about 5 or 10 minutes.  I cooked and ate supper while
> the drive light blinked.  
> 
> Back to normal now. 
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 
> 
> -- 
> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood
> or how you interpreted my words!

Of course I have backups, although a quick run of demerge got it back for me. 
But rolling back KDE, with the attendant hassles of messed up configs, only 
sidesteps the bug , which relates to qr-core not KDE.

At least it prompted me to, belatedley, set up snapshots on my new ZFS setup, 
so some good came of it.
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