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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:07:08
Message-Id: AANLkTineB4q7gyfkxZk99fioFnraRR1TEtXs_o1NzF=V@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails by Hilco Wijbenga
1 On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga
2 <hilco.wijbenga@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > Hi all,
4 >
5 > I'm trying to unmerge some packages. They all fail like this:
6
7
8 >  * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed
9 >  * with exit value -1.
10 >  *
11 >  * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named
12 >  * 'arora-0.11.0.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/www-
13 >  * client/arora-0.11.0' directory. If necessary, manually remove the
14 >  * environment.bz2 file and/or the ebuild file located in that directory.
15 >  *
16 >  * Removal of the environment.bz2 file is preferred since it may allow the
17 >  * removal phases to execute successfully. The ebuild will be sourced and
18 >  * the eclasses from the current portage tree will be used when necessary.
19
20 As the error suggests, remove that file
21 (/var/db/pkg/www-client/arora-0.11.0/environment.bz2) and then try
22 again, it should hopefully work then.
23
24 See this bug for more info:
25 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211833

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbenga@×××××.com>