[BLUG] Great presentation

Mark Krenz blug_at_mailman.cs.indiana.edu
Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:10:40 +0000


 You might look through this thread:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-227767-highlight-sempost+invalid+argument.html

  As I mentioned during the meeting, if you have trouble emerging stuff
(or anything) in Gentoo, your best bet for finding a solution is to take
the error message that you are getting and search for it on
forums.gentoo.org.

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:53:12PM GMT, Ronald Odle [ronodle_at_kiva.net] said the following:
> If I had been able to attend last night's session, I probably wouldn't
> have to ask this question (Tuesday night isn't a great time for me either).
> 
> Two of my four Gentoo installations have begun spewing out a near
> endless string of "sem_post:  Invalid argument" messages whenever I run
> emerge.  All four get frequent "--update --deep world" updates with
> revdep-rebuild, and two installations run flawlessly.  Three of the
> Gentoo installations are running on very similar hardware and one on a
> Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop.  The latter is also starting to fail at
> compiling new software revisions, so I probably just need to scrap it
> and start over.
> 
> But I would very much appreciate any enlightenment as to the origin of
> the sm_post messages and suggestions for solving the problem.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Ron
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Mark Krenz
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