Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stopped working

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Davide Carnovale <
> francesco.davide.carnovale@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 2011/5/2 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
>>
>>> On 05/02/2011 05:38:03 PM, Davide Carnovale wrote:
>>> > Hi all!
>>> > i was going through a world update today and during --depclean emerge
>>> > throw
>>> > an error complaining about possible corrupted binaries or hw failure.
>>> > since then it has stopped working, no matter what i try to emerge,
>>> > the
>>> > command simply return to the shell without any kind of error or any
>>> > other
>>> > output at all.
>>> > i fired and usb stick with the gentoo 11 live dvd and i copied over
>>> > both
>>> > bash and emerge binaries to my machine, in case they were corrupted
>>> > (bash
>>> > was given as the most likely) but nothing changed.
>>> > now i simply have no clue on what's wrong and how can i fix it, apart
>>> > from a
>>> > full reinstall, which i'd like to avoid.
>>> >
>>> > can anyone point me somewhere to solve this problem?
>>> >
>>>
>>> emerge needs Python. Have you tried to invoke Python, just by
>>>
>>> python
>>> import portage
>>> quit()
>>>
>>> Helmut.
>>>
>>> @alan, no error are printed, where and what should i look for in the
>> logs?
>>
>> @helmut python just returns to the console, without error or effect of any
>> sort, does it means python has get unmerged and that's why emerge doesn't
>> work anymore?
>>
>>
> I have the same problem.  I just did a --depclean, and find that 'vim'
> cannot run:
>
> treat log # vim
> vim: error while loading shared libraries: libpython2.6.so.1.0: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> treat log #
>
> So I have to fall back on pico, which I only barely know how to use.
>
> I have quite a collection of binary packages (everything emerged in the
> last few years), but even untarring them fails (just wedges with no message,
> and even strace(1) is not helping me find this.)
>
> I can unpack on a different machine, but will that even help?
>
> BTW, it's not that I don't have python, it's just that version 2.6.6 got
> unloaded somehow:
> [I] dev-lang/python
>      Available versions:
>         (2.4)   2.4.6{tbz2}
>         (2.5)   2.5.4-r4{tbz2}
>         (2.6)   2.6.5-r3{tbz2} 2.6.6-r1{tbz2} 2.6.6-r2{tbz2}
>         (2.7)   2.7.1-r1{tbz2}
>         (3.1)   3.1.2-r4{tbz2} 3.1.3-r1{tbz2}
>         (3.2)   [M]~3.2
>         {-berkdb bootstrap build +cxx doc elibc_uclibc examples gdbm ipv6
> +ncurses +readline sqlite +ssl +threads tk +wide-unicode wininst +xml}
>      Installed versions:  <reformatted for clarity>
>           2.4.6(2.4){tbz2}(11:05:11 PM 02/19/2011)(cxx gdbm ipv6 ncurses
> readline ssl threads tk wide-unicode xml -berkdb -bootstrap -build -doc
> -elibc_uclibc -examples -wininst)
>           2.5.4-r4(2.5){tbz2}(11:16:07 PM 02/19/2011)(gdbm ipv6 ncurses
> readline ssl threads tk wide-unicode xml -berkdb -build -doc -elibc_uclibc
> -examples -sqlite -wininst)
>           2.7.1-r1(2.7){tbz2}(06:11:36 PM 04/21/2011)(gdbm ipv6 ncurses
> readline ssl threads tk wide-unicode xml -berkdb -build -doc -elibc_uclibc
> -examples -sqlite -wininst)
>           3.1.3-r1(3.1){tbz2}(02:31:33 PM 02/26/2011)(gdbm ipv6 ncurses
> readline ssl threads tk wide-unicode xml -build -doc -elibc_uclibc -examples
> -sqlite -wininst)
>      Homepage:            http://www.python.org/
>
> I'm right now trying to see if "eselect python set 3" will let emerge, vim
> and tar run again.  3 is version 2.7.
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
>
ANSWER: yes it did.  At least emerge and vim are working again.  I'm also
doing all of my usual post-emerge cleanups just in case:
#!/bin/bash

echo ' !!! Running dispatch-conf'
dispatch-conf
echo ' !!! Running revdep-rebuild --ignore'
revdep-rebuild --ignore
echo ' !!! Running lafilefixer --justfixit'
lafilefixer --justfixit | fgrep -v 'skipping update'
echo ' !!! Running perl-cleaner all'
perl-cleaner all | fgrep -v 'Skipping directory'
I'm hoping you also have an extra copy of python around, so you can do the
same thing.


-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD