Re: computer hung for no obvious reason

[Justin Sherrill <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Monday 04 June 2012 09:38:23 Pierre Abbat wrote:
>> [2485/12503] Successfully built SDL_gfx-2.0.23
>> [2486/12503] Starting build of  qt4-sqlite3-4.8.0nb2
>> Read from remote host darner: Connection reset by peer
>> Connection to darner closed.
>
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> Resolving...
> Global dependency resolution failed, check /bulklog/meta/presolve-err.log for
> details
> Building...
> Initialisation complete.
> [436/12503] Starting build of  digest-20111104
> [436/12503] Successfully built digest-20111104
> [437/12503] Starting build of  f2c-20100903
> [437/12503] Successfully built f2c-20100903
> [438/12503] Starting build of  libtool-base-2.2.6bnb6
>
> Is this ever going to finish? Rolling-replace didn't work; I still don't have
> a working kmail on DF, and am still using the old konqueror. I've been
> running this build for at least three weeks, and every time I have to restart
> it it goes back to some already built package.

If you're having problems with a couple packages not rebuilding, the
fix is not going to be building 12500 additional packages.  If there's
specific packages you can't get to upgrade, looking at the errors for
those exact items will do you a lot more good.