Re: [gentoo-user] Two apps can't find Java VM

[Dave Jones]

Hi Darren

darren kirby wrote on 25/08/08 23:29:
> Hello all,
>
> Checked bugzy but I cannot find anything relevant.
>
> I have two apps here, icu4j-3.8.1-r1 and xpp3-1.1.4c-r1 which are both failing
> upon world updates with similar messages:
>
> * checking icu4j-3_8_1-src.jar ;-) ...
> [ ok ]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/depend-java-query", line 8, in <module>
>     from java_config_2 import __version__
> ImportError: No module named java_config_2
>  * Unable to determine VM for building from dependencies:
> NV_DEPEND: test? ( || ( =virtual/jdk-1.5* =virtual/jdk-1.4* ) )
>         !test? ( || ( =virtual/jdk-1.6* =virtual/jdk-1.5*
> =virtual/jdk-1.4* ) )
>
> and:
>
>  * checking xpp3-1.1.4c_src.zip ;-) ...
> [ ok ]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/depend-java-query", line 8, in <module>
>     from java_config_2 import __version__
> ImportError: No module named java_config_2
>  * Unable to determine VM for building from dependencies:
> NV_DEPEND: >=virtual/jdk-1.4
>         app-arch/unzip
>         test? ( dev-java/ant-junit )  >=dev-java/java-config-2.0.33-r1
>> =sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.7 source? ( app-arch/zip )
>> =dev-java/javatoolkit-0.2.0-r1 >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.7
>> =dev-java/ant-core-1.7.0
>
> 'eselect java-vm list' reports:
>
> Available Java Virtual Machines:
>   [1]   sun-jdk-1.5
>   [2]   sun-jdk-1.6  system-vm
>
> Which should satisfy the above tests shouldn't it? Is there something I am
> missing here? Please note that I am fairly clueless about Java, and have no
> idea what these two packages even do. I am just trying to do a 'emerge -uD
> world' and portage seems to want to update both of them
>
> Thanks for consideration,
> -d

As illogical as this may sound, you probably need to run python-updater 
to fix this problem.

Cheers, Dave