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alan.mckinnon at gmail

May 14, 2012, 2:24 PM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Mon, 14 May 2012 17:01:59 -0400
Michael Mol <mikemol [at] gmail> wrote:

> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Alan McKinnon
> <alan.mckinnon [at] gmail> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > We generally tolerate gmail webapp users (trying to inline post on
> > that is hard to do but possible) and reluctantly accept the
> > smartphone users often have no choice as it's impossible to do
> > anything other than top post on many devices (especially
> > BlackBerrys). Such users should leave the nice "Sent from my
> > BlackBerry" comment at the bottom, it helps indicate you can't
> > avoid the top-post.
>
> You may have noticed I usually have ":wq" at the ends of my emails.
> That's when I'm posting from, e.g. GMail's web app. When you see "ZZ",
> that's my phone or tablet.
>

True's bob, whaddaya know. It's there right enough :-)

I still think Neil has the best sigs in the entire universe.
It's spooky the way his fortunes work.

--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon [at] gmail

neil at digimed

May 14, 2012, 2:53 PM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Mon, 14 May 2012 23:24:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> I still think Neil has the best sigs in the entire universe.
> It's spooky the way his fortunes work.

They're totally random and chosen by software, I have no influence over
them.

--
Neil Bothwick

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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May 14, 2012, 2:56 PM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Mon, 14 May 2012 17:26:44 +0200, Michael Scherer wrote:

> obviously this is an ingrained habit on gentoo-users, but from

Not a habit, a preference grown from years of experience and the
practicalities of lists like this.

> now on I'm going follow my habits and damn the flames.

Do you act like that in real life? If you see a no smoking sign, do you
light up anyway because that's what you want to do and damn everyone else?

Help lists like this become significantly less useful once you are
killfiled for being an arrogant and ignorant ****.

--
Neil Bothwick

Computer apathy error: don't bother striking any key.

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alan.mckinnon at gmail

May 14, 2012, 4:23 PM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Mon, 14 May 2012 22:53:40 +0100
Neil Bothwick <neil [at] digimed> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 May 2012 23:24:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > I still think Neil has the best sigs in the entire universe.
> > It's spooky the way his fortunes work.
>
> They're totally random and chosen by software, I have no influence
> over them.
>
>

Piffle :-)

Spooky action at a distance, that's what it is!

--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon [at] gmail

mikemol at gmail

May 14, 2012, 4:26 PM

Post #30 of 67 (230 views)
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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil [at] digimed> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2012 23:24:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> I still think Neil has the best sigs in the entire universe.
>> It's spooky the way his fortunes work.
>
> They're totally random and chosen by software, I have no influence over
> them.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

Spooky indeed.

--
:wq

mikemol at gmail

May 14, 2012, 4:35 PM

Post #31 of 67 (229 views)
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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon [at] gmail> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2012 22:53:40 +0100
> Neil Bothwick <neil [at] digimed> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 14 May 2012 23:24:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>> > I still think Neil has the best sigs in the entire universe.
>> > It's spooky the way his fortunes work.
>>
>> They're totally random and chosen by software, I have no influence
>> over them.
>
> Piffle :-)
>
> Spooky action at a distance, that's what it is!

I do believe you're overestimating the gravity of the situation.

--
:wq

pandu at poluan

May 14, 2012, 4:55 PM

Post #32 of 67 (232 views)
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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On May 15, 2012 2:16 AM, "Alecks Gates" <alecks.g [at] gmail> wrote:
>
> Personally, gmail has given me a bad habit. It defaults to
> top-posting in the web client, which I don't see how to change. But
> at least on the desktop I can easily move formatting around. On the
> Android client it seems rather archaic. Does anyone know how to
> change to bottom-posting on either client?
>
> Thankfully, I don't go to any forums that enforce top-posting. I
> would probably get myself banned from all the complaining I would do.
>

Android user here!

With the Android Gmail client, tap on "Respond inline", swipe up
repeatedly, and tap on the blank line underneath the message.

I found Swype (the virtual keyboard) to be most helpful when trimming
fluff; it has honest-to-goodness cursor keys (including PgUp and PgDn), and
a *very* helpful "Select Text" button to start selection.

Rgds,

pandu at poluan

May 14, 2012, 5:03 PM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On May 15, 2012 2:27 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol [at] gmail> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Alecks Gates <alecks.g [at] gmail> wrote:
> >
> > Personally, gmail has given me a bad habit. It defaults to
> > top-posting in the web client, which I don't see how to change. But
> > at least on the desktop I can easily move formatting around. On the
> > Android client it seems rather archaic. Does anyone know how to
> > change to bottom-posting on either client?
>
> In Android, you can press "Reply in-line", but then you've got to
> navigate potentially large email threads using a tiny screen to get to
> the right place to reply. It's an ugly scenario.
>

Meh, just saw your post and realized you've beaten me :-\

Again, please allow me to plug the goodness of Swype... like I posted
before, it has *complete* cursor keys. Plus one very powerful key called
"Cursor Jump" that allows one to very quickly go to the topmost (or bottom
most) line.

Rgds,

alecks.g at gmail

May 14, 2012, 5:05 PM

Post #34 of 67 (235 views)
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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu [at] poluan> wrote:
>
> On May 15, 2012 2:27 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol [at] gmail> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Alecks Gates <alecks.g [at] gmail> wrote:
>> >
>> > Personally, gmail has given me a bad habit. �It defaults to
>> > top-posting in the web client, which I don't see how to change. �But
>> > at least on the desktop I can easily move formatting around. �On the
>> > Android client it seems rather archaic. �Does anyone know how to
>> > change to bottom-posting on either client?
>>
>> In Android, you can press "Reply in-line", but then you've got to
>> navigate potentially large email threads using a tiny screen to get to
>> the right place to reply. It's an ugly scenario.
>>
>
> Meh, just saw your post and realized you've beaten me :-\
>
> Again, please allow me to plug the goodness of Swype... like I posted
> before, it has *complete* cursor keys. Plus one very powerful key called
> "Cursor Jump" that allows one to very quickly go to the topmost (or bottom
> most) line.
>
> Rgds,

I've been quite set on my hardware keyboard for a while now (HTC G2).
But perhaps I'll try out Swype eventually....

pandu at poluan

May 14, 2012, 5:16 PM

Post #35 of 67 (232 views)
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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On May 15, 2012 7:11 AM, "Alecks Gates" <alecks.g [at] gmail> wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Pandu Poluan <pandu [at] poluan> wrote:
> >
> > On May 15, 2012 2:27 AM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol [at] gmail> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Alecks Gates <alecks.g [at] gmail>
wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Personally, gmail has given me a bad habit. It defaults to
> >> > top-posting in the web client, which I don't see how to change. But
> >> > at least on the desktop I can easily move formatting around. On the
> >> > Android client it seems rather archaic. Does anyone know how to
> >> > change to bottom-posting on either client?
> >>
> >> In Android, you can press "Reply in-line", but then you've got to
> >> navigate potentially large email threads using a tiny screen to get to
> >> the right place to reply. It's an ugly scenario.
> >>
> >
> > Meh, just saw your post and realized you've beaten me :-\
> >
> > Again, please allow me to plug the goodness of Swype... like I posted
> > before, it has *complete* cursor keys. Plus one very powerful key called
> > "Cursor Jump" that allows one to very quickly go to the topmost (or
bottom
> > most) line.
> >
> > Rgds,
>
> I've been quite set on my hardware keyboard for a while now (HTC G2).
> But perhaps I'll try out Swype eventually....
>

You can still use the hardware keyboard, after using Swype to mangle the
replied-to email :-)

Rgds,

rdalek1967 at gmail

May 14, 2012, 5:46 PM

Post #36 of 67 (232 views)
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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500
> Dale <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:
>
>> For example: Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top posters
>> on this list.
>
> Yo Dale,
>
> You might want to re-calibrate your stats engine :-)
>
> I've been quiet for a while (getting old...)[1] and fifty bucks says
> Michael, Canek, Pandu and a couple more have all posted more than me
> this year
>
> [1] Well, that's my story and I'm sticking with it
>
>
>

Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:

http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml

I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit tho.
Someone put alum in your water or something?

ROFL

Dale

:-) :-)

--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
how you interpreted my words!

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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"

markknecht at gmail

May 15, 2012, 10:01 AM

Post #37 of 67 (230 views)
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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Dale <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500
>> Dale <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:
>>
>>> For example: Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top posters
>>> on this list.
>>
>> Yo Dale,
>>
>> You might want to re-calibrate your stats engine :-)
>>
>> I've been quiet for a while (getting old...)[1] and fifty bucks says
>> Michael, Canek, Pandu and a couple more have all posted more than me
>> this year
>>
>> [1] Well, that's my story and I'm sticking with it
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
>
> http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
>
> I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit tho.
> Someone put alum in your water or something?
>
> ROFL
>
> Dale
>

Jeez.... Am I _STILL_ showing up on this list of high posting people?
I've honestly worked to get below number 10 and I cannot get there
apparently... (Too many posts like this I suppose!) ;-)

- Mark

rdalek1967 at gmail

May 15, 2012, 10:15 AM

Post #38 of 67 (229 views)
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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Dale <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500
>>> Dale <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:
>>>
>>>> For example: Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top posters
>>>> on this list.
>>>
>>> Yo Dale,
>>>
>>> You might want to re-calibrate your stats engine :-)
>>>
>>> I've been quiet for a while (getting old...)[1] and fifty bucks says
>>> Michael, Canek, Pandu and a couple more have all posted more than me
>>> this year
>>>
>>> [1] Well, that's my story and I'm sticking with it
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
>>
>> http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
>>
>> I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit tho.
>> Someone put alum in your water or something?
>>
>> ROFL
>>
>> Dale
>>
>
> Jeez.... Am I _STILL_ showing up on this list of high posting people?
> I've honestly worked to get below number 10 and I cannot get there
> apparently... (Too many posts like this I suppose!) ;-)
>
> - Mark
>
>

I'm wondering on this myself. Should I take more meds or are the meds
causing it? < scratches head >

o_O

Dale

:-) :-)

--
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how you interpreted my words!

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jdm at jdm

May 15, 2012, 10:20 AM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Mon, 14 May 2012 19:46:39 -0500
Dale <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:

> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500
> > Dale <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:
> >
> >> For example: Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top
> >> posters on this list.
> >
> > Yo Dale,
> >
> > You might want to re-calibrate your stats engine :-)
> >
> > I've been quiet for a while (getting old...)[1] and fifty bucks says
> > Michael, Canek, Pandu and a couple more have all posted more than me
> > this year
> >
> > [1] Well, that's my story and I'm sticking with it
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
>
> http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
>
> I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit tho.
> Someone put alum in your water or something?
>
> ROFL
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>

Would like to thank all guys and girls for posting. Even though I post
very little myself your posts are always excellent and there is plenty
to learn from just reading them.

There are things I can do now which I never thought possible. Thanks

--
John D Maunder

alan.mckinnon at gmail

May 15, 2012, 2:12 PM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Tue, 15 May 2012 10:01:00 -0700
Mark Knecht <markknecht [at] gmail> wrote:

> > Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
> >
> > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
> >
> > I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit
> > tho. Someone put alum in your water or something?
> >
> > ROFL
> >
> > Dale
> >
>
> Jeez.... Am I _STILL_ showing up on this list of high posting people?
> I've honestly worked to get below number 10 and I cannot get there
> apparently... (Too many posts like this I suppose!) ;-)

This gentoo stuff is addictive :-)

Must be the personalities around here. I reckon that anyone who sticks
around here and becomes a regular (regardless of their skill level) has
something special going on inside.

Gentoo-ers all have that DIY attitude, as if they would rather not wait
around for someone else to do all their lifting for them.

--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon [at] gmail

peter at humphrey

May 15, 2012, 4:26 PM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Tuesday 15 May 2012 18:25:57 john wrote:

> Would like to thank all guys and girls for posting. Even though I
> post very little myself your posts are always excellent and there is
> plenty to learn from just reading them.
>
> There are things I can do now which I never thought possible. Thanks

Is this one case in which a me-too message is acceptable? Anyway, I
second John's gratitude to you all.

--
Rgds
Peter

pandu at poluan

May 15, 2012, 5:41 PM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On May 15, 2012 7:50 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:
>
> Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
>
> http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
>
> I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit tho.
> Someone put alum in your water or something?
>

I blabbed that much??

Gee... I purposefully stay away from piping up in threads related to CUPS,
KDE, Gnome, and other desktop-only stuff, and still end up in the top 5??
o_O

Rgds,

a6702894 at unet

May 17, 2012, 9:14 AM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Wed, 16 May 2012 07:41:32 +0700
Pandu Poluan <pandu [at] poluan> wrote:

> On May 15, 2012 7:50 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:
> >
> > Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
> >
> > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
> >
> > I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit
> > tho. Someone put alum in your water or something?
> >
>
> I blabbed that much??
>
> Gee... I purposefully stay away from piping up in threads related to
> CUPS, KDE, Gnome, and other desktop-only stuff, and still end up in
> the top 5?? o_O
>
> Rgds,

OK, OK. May I remind you what started this thread?
If bottom-most is really that important to you, I will
of course comply, though with outlook express which I'm
forced to use most of the time this is a bit tedious.
I had no idea what a flood of angry comments my post
on preferring top-most would start off.

My original problem (see title) is as yet unsolved. Any one
out there with an idea what might be causing this?
I'm grateful to those 3 or 4 who tried to help, but
by now I'm rather desperate and in the whole of internet
pages there is nothing even coming near.

bugzilla told me this wasn't a bug and go to the forums.
So you are really my last resort.

regards, michael

rdalek1967 at gmail

May 17, 2012, 10:05 AM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

Michael Scherer wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2012 07:41:32 +0700
> Pandu Poluan <pandu [at] poluan> wrote:
>
>> On May 15, 2012 7:50 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
>>>
>>> http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
>>>
>>> I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit
>>> tho. Someone put alum in your water or something?
>>>
>>
>> I blabbed that much??
>>
>> Gee... I purposefully stay away from piping up in threads related to
>> CUPS, KDE, Gnome, and other desktop-only stuff, and still end up in
>> the top 5?? o_O
>>
>> Rgds,
>
> OK, OK. May I remind you what started this thread?
> If bottom-most is really that important to you, I will
> of course comply, though with outlook express which I'm
> forced to use most of the time this is a bit tedious.
> I had no idea what a flood of angry comments my post
> on preferring top-most would start off.
>
> My original problem (see title) is as yet unsolved. Any one
> out there with an idea what might be causing this?
> I'm grateful to those 3 or 4 who tried to help, but
> by now I'm rather desperate and in the whole of internet
> pages there is nothing even coming near.
>
> bugzilla told me this wasn't a bug and go to the forums.
> So you are really my last resort.
>
> regards, michael
>
>

I would start with running make -j1 && make modules_install. Someone
else posted it could be a race condition.

Are you editing the config by hand or are you using menuconfig or some
such tool? If editing by hand maybe one thing is enabled but something
else it needs is not.

Still thinking.

Dale

:-) :-)

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neil at digimed

May 17, 2012, 10:13 AM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Thu, 17 May 2012 18:14:20 +0200, Michael Scherer wrote:

> I had no idea what a flood of angry comments my post
> on preferring top-most would start off.

It wasn't your preference, it was your attitude, with this comment

"from now on I'm going follow my habits and damn the flames."

Did you really have no idea that such an arrogant and inflammatory
statement would produce a reaction?

--
Neil Bothwick

She's fine, upstanding, and wonderful laying down.

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May 17, 2012, 10:47 AM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On 2012-05-17 12:14 PM, Michael Scherer <a6702894 [at] unet> wrote:
> If bottom-most is really that important to you, I will of course
> comply, though with outlook express which I'm forced to use most of
> the time this is a bit tedious.

Interesting... so, you have someone standing next to you most of the
time, pointing a gun at your head, forcing you to use one of the worst
mail clients that ever existed?

pandu at poluan

May 17, 2012, 11:06 AM

Post #47 of 67 (211 views)
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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On May 17, 2012 11:19 PM, "Michael Scherer" <a6702894 [at] unet>
wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 May 2012 07:41:32 +0700
> Pandu Poluan <pandu [at] poluan> wrote:
>
> > On May 15, 2012 7:50 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:
> > >
> > > Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
> > >
> > > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
> > >
> > > I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit
> > > tho. Someone put alum in your water or something?
> > >
> >
> > I blabbed that much??
> >
> > Gee... I purposefully stay away from piping up in threads related to
> > CUPS, KDE, Gnome, and other desktop-only stuff, and still end up in
> > the top 5?? o_O
> >
> > Rgds,
>
> OK, OK. May I remind you what started this thread?
> If bottom-most is really that important to you, I will
> of course comply, though with outlook express which I'm
> forced to use most of the time this is a bit tedious.
> I had no idea what a flood of angry comments my post
> on preferring top-most would start off.
>
> My original problem (see title) is as yet unsolved. Any one
> out there with an idea what might be causing this?
> I'm grateful to those 3 or 4 who tried to help, but
> by now I'm rather desperate and in the whole of internet
> pages there is nothing even coming near.
>
> bugzilla told me this wasn't a bug and go to the forums.
> So you are really my last resort.
>
> regards, michael
>

Based on the information you've given, there can be only 2 possible cause:

1. The Makefile is somehow b0rken.

Evidence : 'ls' instead of 'ld'

2. Some file creation failed, causing the next step to fail.

Please post the output of 'df -i'. I once ran out of inodes during kernel
compile, even when the filesystem (ext4) was created with IIRC
100'000-something inodes (and still having several gigabytes of free
space).

Nowadays, I put /usr/src and portage's tempdir on a reiserfs to prevent
running out of inodes.

3. Something is wrong with your filesystem.

Especially if /usr/src is *already* on reiserfs. In this case, boot using
SystemRescueCD and do an offline fsck on the partition containing /usr/src

4. Swapfile / Swap partition problems.

Even with enough RAM, sometimes gcc just wants a swap. Post the output of
'swapon -s' please.

And there's also the possibility that somehow the swap gets b0rked. Try
turning off swap, rebuild the swap, and turning it back on.

Rgds,

a6702894 at unet

May 17, 2012, 11:58 AM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Thu, 17 May 2012 18:13:14 +0100
Neil Bothwick <neil [at] digimed> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 May 2012 18:14:20 +0200, Michael Scherer wrote:
>
> > I had no idea what a flood of angry comments my post
> > on preferring top-most would start off.
>
> It wasn't your preference, it was your attitude, with this comment
>
> "from now on I'm going follow my habits and damn the flames."
>
> Did you really have no idea that such an arrogant and inflammatory
> statement would produce a reaction?
>
>

That line was indeed ill conceived, and is usually not my style.
Probably I was very tired and the frustration about not being
able to solve my problem expressed itself in the wrong context.

regards, michael

a6702894 at unet

May 17, 2012, 12:13 PM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Thu, 17 May 2012 12:05:07 -0500
Dale <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:

> Michael Scherer wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 May 2012 07:41:32 +0700
> > Pandu Poluan <pandu [at] poluan> wrote:
> >
> >> On May 15, 2012 7:50 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1967 [at] gmail> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think:
> >>>
> >>> http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
> >>>
> >>> I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit
> >>> tho. Someone put alum in your water or something?
> >>>
> >>
> >> I blabbed that much??
> >>
> >> Gee... I purposefully stay away from piping up in threads related
> >> to CUPS, KDE, Gnome, and other desktop-only stuff, and still end
> >> up in the top 5?? o_O
> >>
> >> Rgds,
> >
> > OK, OK. May I remind you what started this thread?
> > If bottom-most is really that important to you, I will
> > of course comply, though with outlook express which I'm
> > forced to use most of the time this is a bit tedious.
> > I had no idea what a flood of angry comments my post
> > on preferring top-most would start off.
> >
> > My original problem (see title) is as yet unsolved. Any one
> > out there with an idea what might be causing this?
> > I'm grateful to those 3 or 4 who tried to help, but
> > by now I'm rather desperate and in the whole of internet
> > pages there is nothing even coming near.
> >
> > bugzilla told me this wasn't a bug and go to the forums.
> > So you are really my last resort.
> >
> > regards, michael
> >
> >
>
>
> I would start with running make -j1 && make modules_install. Someone
> else posted it could be a race condition.
>
> Are you editing the config by hand or are you using menuconfig or some
> such tool? If editing by hand maybe one thing is enabled but
> something else it needs is not.
>
> Still thinking.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
>

Same result as ever. I use make nconfig, which is somewhat easier
to navigate around. Only once I tried to manually change .config,
because revdep-rebuild wanted to rebuild sys-fs/udisks, which
complained about CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND not being set, but a silent
make oldconfig removed the line automatically. I did the change
manually because CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND doesn't seem to exist in 3.2.12.

Anyway, thank you for thinking about it.

regards, michael

ny6p01 at gmail

May 17, 2012, 12:14 PM

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Re: Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails [In reply to]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 01:47:56PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2012-05-17 12:14 PM, Michael Scherer <a6702894 [at] unet> wrote:
> > If bottom-most is really that important to you, I will of course
> > comply, though with outlook express which I'm forced to use most of
> > the time this is a bit tedious.
>
> Interesting... so, you have someone standing next to you most of the
> time, pointing a gun at your head, forcing you to use one of the worst
> mail clients that ever existed?
>

How befitting that MS's flagship email client top posts by default...

Terry

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