Frakkin' Gentoo, Again!

[elfs]

I am so flamin' mad right now. I tried to install a new power-saving feature on my desktop machine, the same one I've been using on my laptop for the past few months. It required an upgrade of some core utilities, but I figured, okay, go ahead.

Everything broke. And I mean everything. I have to re-install the entire OS from scratch.

Now, normally, that wouldn't annoy me too much. No, what makes me stone cold furious is that the current edition of Gentoo (Gentoo 2008) does not provide a backward-compatible cryptoloop. Until I find out what the hell it does with the cryptoloop, I can't access my archive drive, which I'd crypto'd on a whim just to see if I could do it. It was by bittorrent drive; all my anime is on there! Grrr.....

I'm pretty damn sure I can build old-mount and old-loop by hand and recover, but dammit, I shouldn't have to. Anyway, there's still a working kernel on there. Just nothing else. And, oh the irony, the Gentoo 2008 "install disk"-- is an image on the desktop machine. And the motherboard is too old to boot from USB.

This really is my fault for letting the machine go too long between system updates.

Comments

[gromm.livejournal.com]

This demonstrates why I like Debian and its progeny. When Debian updates, it does so in a way that it knows it won't break. Namely, because someone else has already tried and found out what happens and changes the update process to compensate for it - or it blocks the update.

It's kept our servers very stable where we have it installed.