[gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

[Mark Knecht]

I have a machine that hasn't been updated in quite awhile I turned it
on today with the intention of possibly using it to replace an older
MYthTV server that is going bad. First step would be eix-sync which is
failing with only a message

problems running time emerge --sync

Not much help there.

Then I tried emerge -pvDuN world to see what state I left things after
the last sync and get lots of messages like these:

!!! A file is not listed in the Manifest:
'/usr/portage/dev-libs/openssl/openssl-0.9.8e-r2.ebuild'

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-libs/openssl" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8e-r1 (masked by: corruption)
- dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8e-r3 (masked by: corruption)

Clearly the machine is unhappy about something.

emerge -pv portage does this:

<SNIP>
 \!!! A file is not listed in the Manifest:
'/usr/portage/app-arch/rpm2targz/rpm2targz-9.0-r4.ebuild'
... done!
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.3.9 [2.1.2.12] USE="-build -doc
-epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 377 kB

Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 377 kB
Sector9 ~ #

I tried emerge -pv system and get a failure at the end that says:

(dependency required by "dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6" [ebuild])

!!! Problem resolving dependencies for dev-lang/python
!!! Depgraph creation failed.


I'm not at all clear how to proceed as I've never had a Gentoo machine
do anything like this.

Any ideas much appreciated. I've been googling but haven't found a
great answer yet.

Thanks in advance.
Mark
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