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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --unmerge fails
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:41:20
Message-Id: i95cgv$bls$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails by Hilco Wijbenga
1 On 10/13/2010 12:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
2 > Hi all,
3 >
4 > I'm trying to unmerge some packages. They all fail like this:
5 >
6 >>>> Unmerging www-client/arora-0.11.0...
7 > * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed
8 > * with exit value -1.
9
10 >
11 > centaur ~ # eix sys-apps/portage
12 > Installed versions: 2.2_rc67(10:58:51 07/14/10)(-build -doc
13 >
14 > centaur ~ # eix dev-lang/python
15 > Installed versions: 2.6.6-r1(2.6)
16
17 Hm, well I'm just now updating my ~amd64 machine and I see that both python
18 and portage are about to be updated. I'm still with the 2.1.x portage, so
19 I can't comment on the version you're running. Were your python and portage
20 just recently updated?
21
22 Did you run python-updater after the upgrade? Perhaps the python ebuild does
23 that for you, I'm not sure. Anyway I'd run it again just to make sure.
24
25 This could be a new bug in portage, too. I'd suggest downgrading to your
26 previous portage version -- but I'm not sure how safe that is. Anyone else
27 know?