On Sunday 05 April 2015 21:05:15 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Sonntag, 5. April 2015, 19:03:43 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > On Sunday 05 April 2015 18:29:05 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > Do you see anything that is actually broken? > > > > Apart from perl-cleaner and portage? Emerge exiting silently after being > > given a list of packages to emerge doesn't exactly seem like normal > > behaviour to me. It was told "emerge -v1 ...[list of packages]" as in > > perl- cleaner's usual behaviour. No ifs, no buts - just do it. > > Very strange. Portage does to my best knowledge not use perl and not even > depend on it.
After a bit more thought I remember that GCC was upgraded last week, and the change log referred to many bug fixes. (That's what my memory tells me, anyway, but I can't see where I found it now.) So I decided to emerge -e world, which I did in two passes: first emerge -eB world, then boot to a minimal system and emerge -eK world. Then etc-update and reboot, compile the kernel again (gentoo-sources-3.18.9) and a final reboot. Maybe something went wrong in the middle of that, so I've set off the same process again. It'll take a few hours, so I'm off to bed again meanwhile - it's 04:30 here. -- Rgds Peter.