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From: deface <deface@×××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:23:20
Message-Id: 27E9B79A-9299-411E-9681-44E098D558A9@uberpenguin.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing by Mark Knecht
1 try emerge --sync; emerge --update --newuse --deep world; emerge --
2 depclean
3
4
5 On Jan 29, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
6
7 > I have a machine that hasn't been updated in quite awhile I turned it
8 > on today with the intention of possibly using it to replace an older
9 > MYthTV server that is going bad. First step would be eix-sync which is
10 > failing with only a message
11 >
12 > problems running time emerge --sync
13 >
14 > Not much help there.
15 >
16 > Then I tried emerge -pvDuN world to see what state I left things after
17 > the last sync and get lots of messages like these:
18 >
19 > !!! A file is not listed in the Manifest:
20 > '/usr/portage/dev-libs/openssl/openssl-0.9.8e-r2.ebuild'
21 >
22 > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-libs/openssl" have been
23 > masked.
24 > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
25 > your request:
26 > - dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8e-r1 (masked by: corruption)
27 > - dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8e-r3 (masked by: corruption)
28 >
29 > Clearly the machine is unhappy about something.
30 >
31 > emerge -pv portage does this:
32 >
33 > <SNIP>
34 > \!!! A file is not listed in the Manifest:
35 > '/usr/portage/app-arch/rpm2targz/rpm2targz-9.0-r4.ebuild'
36 > ... done!
37 > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.3.9 [2.1.2.12] USE="-build -doc
38 > -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 377 kB
39 >
40 > Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 377 kB
41 > Sector9 ~ #
42 >
43 > I tried emerge -pv system and get a failure at the end that says:
44 >
45 > (dependency required by "dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6" [ebuild])
46 >
47 > !!! Problem resolving dependencies for dev-lang/python
48 > !!! Depgraph creation failed.
49 >
50 >
51 > I'm not at all clear how to proceed as I've never had a Gentoo machine
52 > do anything like this.
53 >
54 > Any ideas much appreciated. I've been googling but haven't found a
55 > great answer yet.
56 >
57 > Thanks in advance.
58 > Mark
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