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From: Mihai Tanasescu <mihai@×××××.ro>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Emerge ARCH not set..symlink never ending problem
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:32:59
Message-Id: 4B517978.3020602@duras.ro
1 Hello guys,
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5 I'm not quite an expert at Gentoo but have just been asked recently by
6 someone to take a look at their server...which I did.
7
8 I tried doing emerge dmidecode for example and got:
9 # emerge dmidecode
10 --- Invalid atom in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
11 >=media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc4_p20091124
12 !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink?
13 !!! Is the symlink correct? Is your portage tree complete?
14
15 then I went google-ing and found on some forums that I must make:
16 emerge --sync
17 rm /etc/make.profile
18 remake the link
19
20 I did all this...
21
22 gate ~ # ls -la /etc/make.profile
23 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Jan 16 01:02 /etc/make.profile ->
24 /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0
25 gate ~ # ls -la /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/10.0/
26 total 8
27 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 176 Aug 17 22:08 .
28 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 200 Aug 6 10:37 ..
29 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 Oct 22 15:40 desktop
30 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 Oct 22 15:40 developer
31 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 Aug 17 21:54 eapi
32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Aug 6 10:29 parent
33 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 128 Oct 22 15:40 server
34
35 The error still remains with me.
36
37 I checked the CHOST value and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS also in /etc/make.conf and
38 I have:
39 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
40 CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
41
42 Portage version is:
43 sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.22-r3
44
45 What else can I do ?
46 I'm running around in circles:)
47
48 Please help if possible.