I had faced this instance where there ocurred problem with mysql configuration in debian. Something went wrong with the configuration and could not be traced out. We needed to fix it soon and reinstall was the easy option as there was no useful data. But, the package couldn’t be removed because mysql is stopped before [...]
Seems like I will be doing some serious bug hunting today. No complaints. It’s all fun. So, while updating world, gettext started failing on me. So, I went back to bugs.gentoo.org to look out for any useful bug reports.
While compiling xorg-server on gentoo/freebsd, I was getting an error. So, I paid a visit to #gentoo-bsd on irc.freenode.net. WIth the help of friendly people out there I found that it’s missing something but seemed to be out of luck as we couldn’t find out what was missing. A quickfire query at bugs.gentoo.org revealed that [...]