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From: Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:44:07
Message-Id: AANLkTikiw+qvos9CdZPxEzae9hg9bWhKKX5a3vTh-iGe@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails by Paul Hartman
1 On 13 October 2010 13:23, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga
3 > <hilco.wijbenga@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> Hi all,
5 >>
6 >> I'm trying to unmerge some packages. They all fail like this:
7 >
8 >
9 >>  * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed
10 >>  * with exit value -1.
11 >>  *
12 >>  * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named
13 >>  * 'arora-0.11.0.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/www-
14 >>  * client/arora-0.11.0' directory. If necessary, manually remove the
15 >>  * environment.bz2 file and/or the ebuild file located in that directory.
16 >>  *
17 >>  * Removal of the environment.bz2 file is preferred since it may allow the
18 >>  * removal phases to execute successfully. The ebuild will be sourced and
19 >>  * the eclasses from the current portage tree will be used when necessary.
20 >
21 > As the error suggests, remove that file
22 > (/var/db/pkg/www-client/arora-0.11.0/environment.bz2) and then try
23 > again, it should hopefully work then.
24 >
25 > See this bug for more info:
26 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211833
27
28 Nope, removing environment.bz2 doesn't make any difference. Also, note
29 that it's not just this package. I have the same problem for at least
30 2 others. It seems a pandemic. :-)