What a screwup

Jaglover · Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 10:36 pm Post subject: What a screwup

Today I came home and decided it's time for an upgrade for my computers. I did eix-sync from my desktop, updating portage on a remote NFS volume. I logged on to my Wife's computer and believe or not su - failed. After trying several times I decided to reset the root password, so I lifted my lazy butt from my chair and went to reboot it in single user mode. The PC shut down alright but it never came up again. For a simple reason, it had no kernel on the hard drive.
It appears I ran depclean in her box. Before I built a new kernel. I'm too lazy to install kernels, so /boot/bzImage is actually a symlink to /usr/src/linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage. Depclean wiped away the 3.3.5 kernel (WHY? I was under impression depclean removes only files installed by emerge?).
On top of that, I realized I was trying wrong password. Developing dementia?

Shall I switch to Ubuntu? :roll:

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aidanjt · Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 11:46 pm Post subject:

Tried sleep?
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Jaglover · Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 12:12 am Post subject:

Thank you, doc. Will try that right away.
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avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

radius · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2012 Posts: 24

This is nothing compared to mistakes that I make. One thing I don't understand is why you did the symlinking and not copied the bzImage.

If you do switch to Ubuntu, I am almost certain that you will either come back to Gentoo or go to another distribution very soon.
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kimmie · Guru Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 531 Location: Australia

Depclean will not remove /usr/src/.../bzImage... the object and executable files that you built aren't part of the package, so something else is the problem there. Only files listed by "qlist gentoo-sources" or "equery f gentoo-source" will be removed.

Depclean will remove all but the latest version of the kernel sources. It has no way of knowing which kernel you are actually booting.

If you want to prevent depclean from removing sources, the easiest way is to tell portage the specific version you want to keep: eg. "emerge --noreplace =gentoo-sources-3.2.12" (assuming you've already emerged that version).

jburns · Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 2:24 am Post subject:

If the symlink USE flag is set doing an emerge that emerges a new kernel will change the /usr/src/linux symlink and if the new kernel is not built the next boot will not find the kernel.

Jaglover · Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 7:53 pm Post subject:

Alright depclean didn't do it. Even after waterboarding depclean denies it.

avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

Jaglover · Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 10:37 pm Post subject:

I'm posting this on behalf of Jaglover.

It appears he was arrested in the local truckstop for soliciting illegal substances. The arresting officer said he was raving about stolen nitty gritty (or something like that). Currently he is being evaluated by a shrink. We are trying to get him off on insanity defense. We think him using Gentoo Linux supports our line of defense. If you have any examples of other Gentoo users doing crazy things please contact our office.

Sincerely yours,

O'Pickle of Creepy Law Office
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avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

Man, Gentooligans are stupid, can't even read. I said train station, not truckstop. Even if the fumes there might take you to another high, that's not the same deal.

As for other crazy examples, I'd suggest moving down the street a little, there's a corner somewhere off the wall, where bones are cracked, third world people are vomiting emoticons all over the world, world's end predicting prophets, fans of a maximal pigmented fella spending money he doesn't have and if your lucky, some germans, too.

If you ACTA quickly, you might be able to shutdown the whole place without others even noticing, if I may, I'd suggest some Beethoven or Tschaikovsky for your run. Good luck.

Addendum, don't forget to be always packing, I'd suggest at least a rocketlauncher and a dncornholio-Tshirt.
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djdunn · l33t Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 810

what just happened i dont understand ...
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Jaglover · Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 8:40 pm Post subject:

Chief, you said local train station. I did my traveling and had my adventures in Germany, I know you do have train stations there. We here don't. I think they may have one in New Orleans. I'd be surprised if there was more than ten train stations in whole Louisiana. So I substituted local train station with local truck stop, we have plenty of those. Any further tips or hints?
Music choice is fine, BTW, although there are moments when I prefer Mozart or Haydn ... then again there are days I go with Bach.

Kernel mystery is solved. It appears I never had 3.3.5 kernel in that box. So it wasn't depcleaned or stolen.
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avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

Dude, get your trains stolen by a hurricane or what, lameo. Nothing good can ever happen at an american truck stop, didn't you watch at least a single "horror" movie? They put a tow hook through your balls and pull you down the street, sitting on your ass and drive you cross-country down to Tijuana.

But that's not a bad thing, I hear Win2k is really cheap down there, you'll just have to play a little with some gay donkeys iaaahing like Eddie Murphy.

If that sounds too troublesome to you, spent less time investing your money in viagra and have a look at the hot deals in your inbox. There usually are a few fellas providing you with the newest software for a gigantic bargain, they'll only want your wife and kids, imho a killer deal, trading these annoying beings for such a superior operating system.

As for your music, you don't go with Bach, you go into a Bach, sitting down and enjoy the ducks playing around you, taking bets how long it'll take for you to drown.

In conclusion, your Linux journey has been a failure from the getgo and since your soul is worthless anyway, you might as well give it away for the chance to make your life more joyfull, thanks to the gods at Redmond. But please, do me a favor, take Redmond, not the Apple, mankind has been doomed once already, just because someone wanted an Apple, don't do it all over again, thank you.
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krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

And a proof of fail justice: who could arrest jaglover the 26 and release him the 27 ! It's not serious.
And we wonder why we have so many depclean gangsters everywhere after that?