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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Portage curruptness problem
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:41:19
Message-Id: 200707070135.36013.wonko@wonkology.org
1 Hi there,
2
3 I have a problem with portage being unable to unmerge some old packages. No
4 idea what do do about this. I already remerged portage, tried
5 emerge --emtadata and emerge --regen. Maybe someone of you knows what to
6 do? I would not like to dig into the portage source code...
7
8 root@zone:~ emerge -atv --clean
9
10 >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
11
12 net-firewall/iptables
13 selected: 1.2.7a-r3
14 protected: 1.3.5-r4
15 omitted: none
16
17 >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
18 >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.
19
20 Would you like to unmerge these packages? [Yes/No]
21 >>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting...
22 >>> (Control-C to abort)...
23 >>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1
24 >>> Unmerging net-firewall/iptables-1.2.7a-r3...
25 Traceback (most recent call last):
26 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5547, in ?
27 retval = emerge_main()
28 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5528, in emerge_main
29 mtimedb["ldpath"]):
30 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3608, in unmerge
31 vartree=vartree, ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
32 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3991, in unmerge
33 ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
34 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6979, in unmerge
35 self.settings, 0, 0, self.vartree.dbapi)
36 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3013, in doebuild_environment
37 mysettings.setcpv(mycpv, use_cache=use_cache, mydb=mydbapi)
38 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1683, in setcpv
39 slot, iuse = mydb.aux_get(self.mycpv, ["SLOT", "IUSE"])
40 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5353, in aux_get
41 raise KeyError(mycpv)
42 KeyError: 'sys-apps/iptables-1.2.7a-r3'
43
44 root@zone:~ emerge -Ca \<app-misc/mc-4.6
45
46 >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
47
48 app-misc/mc
49 selected: 4.5.55-r5
50 protected: none
51 omitted: 4.6.1-r3
52
53 >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
54 >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.
55
56 Would you like to unmerge these packages? [Yes/No]
57 >>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting...
58 >>> (Control-C to abort)...
59 >>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1
60 >>> Unmerging app-misc/mc-4.5.55-r5...
61 Traceback (most recent call last):
62 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5547, in ?
63 retval = emerge_main()
64 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5528, in emerge_main
65 mtimedb["ldpath"]):
66 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3608, in unmerge
67 vartree=vartree, ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
68 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3991, in unmerge
69 ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
70 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6979, in unmerge
71 self.settings, 0, 0, self.vartree.dbapi)
72 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3013, in doebuild_environment
73 mysettings.setcpv(mycpv, use_cache=use_cache, mydb=mydbapi)
74 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1683, in setcpv
75 slot, iuse = mydb.aux_get(self.mycpv, ["SLOT", "IUSE"])
76 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5353, in aux_get
77 raise KeyError(mycpv)
78 KeyError: 'gnome-extra/mc-4.5.55-r5'
79
80 Alex
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