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From: George Garvey <tmwg-gentoou@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Portage dead -- don't know how to proceed
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 06:35:04
Message-Id: 20050718063010.GN10632@inxservices.com
1 /usr/portage itself is NFS mounted from a server and is fine.
2 However, emerge --metadata and emerge -av1 glibc both report problems
3 with some bdb stuff and doesn't work.
4 This all happened after a failed glibc emerge. It detected that it
5 was nptlonly, said it was removing /lib/tls, does with a preinst
6 problem (on the rm as far as I can tell), and emerge has been hosed
7 ever since.
8
9 (After I rm -rf /var/cache/edb):
10 % emerge --metadata
11 >>> /var/cache/edb doesn't exist, creating it...
12 >>> /var/cache/edb/dep doesn't exist, creating it...
13
14
15 Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2002
16
17
18 .................... clipped ..........................
19
20 ** Skipping packages. Run 'fixpackages' or set it in FEATURES to fix the
21 tbz2's in the packages directory. Note: This can take a very long time.
22 skipping sync
23
24 >>> Updating Portage cache:
25 Failed cache update: app-accessibility/SphinxTrain-0.9.1-r1 (38, 'Function not implemented -- process-private: unable to initialize environment lock: Function not implemented')
26
27 Failed cache update: app-accessibility/at-poke-0.2.2 (38, 'Function not implemented -- process-private: unable to initialize environment lock: Function not implemented')
28
29
30 and so on and on and on
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34 Here is emerge -av1 glibc:
35 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
36
37 Calculating dependencies
38
39 !!! Problem in sys-libs/glibc dependencies.
40 !!! (38, 'Function not implemented -- process-private: unable to initialize environment lock: Function not implemented') bsddb._db
41
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