Gnome upgrading tip
Saturday, September 16th, 2006When upgrading Gnome on Gentoo, if you get errors like The panel encountered a problem while loading “OAFIID:GNOME_ClockApplet”.? Make sure you do a “revdep-rebuild” to resolve the issue.
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Uninstalled Portage
Saturday, September 16th, 2006A friend accidentally removed Portage with an emerge -C portage. After not finding any info on this issue for a while, I went to the IRC channel. Gentoo’s IRC channel is on Freenode and the channel name is #gentoo. Shortly after posting a question about how to resolve this issue, Nailbags pointed out a guide on Portage Rescue. The document Nailbags refered to is manually fixing Portage.
The guide is very good except it is missing one thing that was hanging my friend up. After manually putting Portage back, it failed to tell the user to put /usr/lib/portage/bin in the PATH variable. Without this step the user thinks, he can type “emerge portage” but has to type out “/usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge portage”. Once the Portage is successfully emerged it updates the PATH.
I have contacted the author of the guide about this issue. Hopefully it will get fixed soon.