[gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

[Alexey Luchko]

Alexey Luchko wrote:
> colinux ~ # emerge portage --pretend --tree
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [nomerge      ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2]
> [ebuild     U ]  app-shells/bash-3.2_p39 [3.1_p17] USE="-examples%
> -plugins%"
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2]
> [ebuild     U ]  dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 [2.0.1-r5]
> [ebuild     U ]  sys-apps/sandbox-1.6-r2 [1.2.17]
> [ebuild  N    ]   app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7  USE="-nocxx"
> [ebuild  N    ]  app-admin/eselect-news-20080320
> [ebuild     U ]   app-admin/eselect-1.0.11-r1 [1.0.7] USE="-vim-syntax%"
> [ebuild     U ]  app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.19 [0.1.15]
> [blocks B     ] <sys-apps/portage-2.1.5 (is blocking
> app-shells/bash-3.2_p39)
> colinux ~ #

Hi!

Thank every one for your help.

Finally I got it out this way:
first  emerge --nodeps bash
then  emerge portage  upgraded portage to the latest version
and then, of cause,  emerge -uDN system -pvt
it had blocked packages
[blocks B     ] <sys-apps/man-pages-3 ("<sys-apps/man-pages-3" is blocking
sys-apps/man-pages-posix-2003a)
[blocks B     ] <sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41 ("<sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41" is blocking
sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3-r1)
[blocks B     ] sys-apps/mktemp ("sys-apps/mktemp" is blocking
sys-apps/coreutils-7.1)
[blocks B     ] sys-libs/com_err ("sys-libs/com_err" is blocking
sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3-r1)
[blocks B     ] <sys-apps/util-linux-2.13 ("<sys-apps/util-linux-2.13" is
blocking sys-apps/coreutils-7.1)
[blocks B     ] sys-libs/ss ("sys-libs/ss" is blocking
sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3-r1)

I unmerged them, and then  emerge -uDN system  had been working fine until
sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3-r1 compilation failed with
../../lib/libuuid.so: undefined reference to `___tls_get_addr'

I had no separate uuid package installed
colinux ~ # emerge --search uuid | less
Searching...
[ Results for search key : uuid ]
[ Applications found : 4 ]
*  dev-libs/ossp-uuid [ Masked ]
       Latest version available: 1.6.2
       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
*  dev-perl/Data-UUID
       Latest version available: 1.148
       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
*  dev-python/uuid [ Masked ]
       Latest version available: 1.30
       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
*  dev-ruby/uuidtools
       Latest version available: 1.0.7
       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]


It claimed on
/usr/tmp/portage/sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3-r1/work/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3/lib/libuuid.so

I checked whether the name tls_get_addr exists and found nothing
colinux e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3 # pwd
/usr/tmp/portage/sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3-r1/work/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3
colinux e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3 # grep tls_get_addr `find . -iname '*.c'`

After seaching tls_get_addr on http://www.google.com/codesearch I decided to
update glibc first:
colinux ~ # emerge glibc -pvt

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1 [2.3.6-r4] USE="-debug% -gd%
-glibc-omitfp (-hardened) (-multilib) -nls* -profile (-selinux) -vanilla%
(-build%) (-erandom%) (-glibc-compat20%) (-nptl%) (-nptlonly%)" 0 kB [?=>0]

Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Portage tree and overlays:
  [0] /usr/portage
  [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined

  * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
  * Use eselect news to read news items.

colinux ~ # emerge glibc

  * i386 CHOSTs are no longer supported.
  * Chances are you don't actually want/need i386.
  * Please read http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml

Here I've decided to make yet another backup and tried to remount / readonly.
And found the mount missing. I'm guessing that util-linux is the package 
containing mount and it depends on e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3-r1.


Here I am now ;)
Any advice is welcome!


Alexey.