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On Wednesday, December 28, 2022 7:36:38 A.M. AEDT Walter Dnes wrote:
> I gave up on searching Google, and decided to nuke+repave. I'm sending
> from my backup ("successor") machine. The original machine now has basic
> install plus xorg-server plus icewm plus xterm. The titles on the xterm
> window bars are OK, i.e. they are *NOT* missing every second letter. I
> still have to install 74 apps from the backup copy I made of "world" and
> configure them.
>
> I fear that I may have to do the same with the backup machine. I run
> the same configs on both machines. I haven't updated the backup machine
> for 63 days, according to the warnings. Hopefully correcting make.conf
> right now will save me a second reinstall.


Did you try the not quite so hard "emerge --emptytree -a world" first?

It just recompiles your whole current system again, to make sure everything is up to date
and has the current set of Use flags. Skips all the initial installation steps, and keeps all
your /etc config customisations.

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On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 10:12:51AM +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote

> Did you try the not quite so hard "emerge --emptytree -a world" first?

Yes; that was one of my attempts to fix the problem.

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frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista,
pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All
those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 03:36:38PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote

> I fear that I may have to do the same with the backup machine. I run
> the same configs on both machines. I haven't updated the backup machine
> for 63 days, according to the warnings. Hopefully correcting make.conf
> right now will save me a second reinstall.

I corrected make.conf, ran emptytree, and then updated the
backup/successor machine. The warnings were now 66 days since last sync.
The backup runs behind the main desktop, so I seem to have caught the
problem in time on this machine. After the update, X runs OK with
window titles showing every letter, and no warnings about libpcre. All
is good.

The backup machine will be updated once a month "whether it needs it
or not". Generally the same for my main desktop, but... I have Netflix
which requires Google-Chrome, which will beg for updates at random
intervals, so the main machine will have extra updates. Pale Moon is my
"daily driver" web browser. Google-Chrome is for Netflix only.

--
I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista,
pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to uninstall RealPlayer. All
those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain... time to die.

On Saturday, 31 December 2022 06:07:35 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:

> The backup machine will be updated once a month "whether it needs it
> or not".

:)

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Regards,
Peter.