I have alexandria working on my amd64 laptop. Therefore please add the ~amd64 to the keywords. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
after adding ~amd64 to all dependencies and merging every package i got the following result: lucky@pinky ~ $ alexandria ----------------------- Alexandria just crashed ----------------------- Timestamp: Mon Feb 07 23:27:49 CET 2005 Message: undefined method `map' for nil:NilClass Backtrace: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/book_providers.rb:146:in `update_priority' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/book_providers.rb:142:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/book_providers.rb:18:in `new' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/book_providers.rb:18:in `new' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/singleton.rb:95:in `instance' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/singleton.rb:84:in `instance' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/book_providers.rb:150:in `method_missing' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:644:in `initialize_ui' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb:40:in `initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:40:in `new' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria/ui.rb:40:in `main' /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/alexandria.rb:47:in `main' /usr/bin/alexandria:10 Release: 0.4.0 Uname -a: Linux pinky 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 #5 Sat Dec 18 00:13:25 CET 2004 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux -- Please report this dump to 'alexandria-list@rubyforge.org' with some additional information, such as the description of the crash and the steps to reproduce it (if it's possible).
doesn't work
The problem #2 is a problem on all platforms (#76726). I hope it is solved in a future ebuild, or even upstream. A quick solution to the problem is to run "gconftool-2 --shutdown" before running alexandria.
in CVS, thanks!