Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks to all of you who have tried to help me. As it turned out, comparing MD5 sum is intractable, /usr/lib64 alone contained more than 500,000 files ! The /etc tree didn't show significant differences. So, I resorted to keep my 4 cores busy over the weekend to re-emerge the whole machine. Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 17:57:42 Blakawk wrote: > As far as i remember, i don't see why modification times will enter in > the md5sum computation process, as they are not part of the file but of > the filesystem's inode... it's definitely possible to compare two > binaries on two different syst

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Stroller
On 17/5/2011, at 4:52pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > ... > What you want to do is: find the bug. Or, y'know: just `emerge -e world` and see if it goes away. I know this is a bit of brute force & ignorance, but: 1) if the bug goes away when you recompile everything then it was a difficult b

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Leonardo Guilherme
Leonardo 2011/5/17 Paul Hartman > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- > > to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. > > > > Still, on one of these machines KDE cr

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Blakawk
On Tue, 17 May 2011 17:52:32 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 15:42:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines K

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 15:42:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- > to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. > > Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- > kde-authenticatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Good day, Helmut! On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 03:42:35PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- > to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. "Nearly identical" is a bit like "slightly pregnant". How about ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- > to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. > > Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- > kde-authenticatio

[gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

2011-05-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- kde-authentication-agent-1 segmentation fault. On the other machine there is no probl