Can't update because of modutils and libpcap...!!!

danielrm26 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 92

Greetings,

I am getting really frustrated here. I have been loving my Gentoo boxen for weeks now and then a while back both of my installs went bad in exactly the same way.

When I do 'emerge -u system' I get an error on modutils everytime, and on both machines!

I don't see what it could be. I have installed a program called Puresecure on both machines (by Demarc), and I have installed nmap, ethereal, ngrep, tcpflow, on both too. Other than that I haven't done anything the same. They are vastly different hardware and in different environments seeing different traffic.

The error I get when it goes bad is that there are too many levels of symbolic links. I am pretty sure that should tell me something, but what I don't know.

Please help.

Thanks,

Daniel
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lx · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 10:24 pm Post subject:

Can you print some output error?

Well don't know the cause / problem, but I found it sometimes helps to delete /var/cache/edb/dep dir.
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danielrm26 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 92

Here is the error I get:

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make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/modutils-2.4.16/work/modutils-2.4.16/util'
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/modutils-2.4.16/work/modutils-2.4.16/obj'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/modutils-2.4.16/work/modutils-2.4.16/obj'
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/modutils-2.4.16/work/modutils-2.4.16/insmod'
ln -sf insmod modprobe
make[1]: execvp: ln: Too many levels of symbolic links
make[1]: *** [modprobe] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/modutils-2.4.16/work/modutils-2.4.16/insmod'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 23, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

!!! emerge aborting on /usr/portage/sys-apps/modutils/modutils-2.4.16.ebuild .
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lx · Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 8:09 am Post subject:

error 127 is a permission error. And execvp ELOOP Indicates too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the path name/ Number of symbolic links encountered during path name traversal exceeds MAXSYMLINKS. But why?
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danielrm26 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 92

Exactly.

It is just reallly discouraging. I don't see how I can be all enthused about Gentoo anymore when I have to worry about unsolvable problems with the install happening just whenever.

I take several hours to completely configure my system and then it just shits itself?

Bad form. Looks like I am going to another distro.
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klieber · Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 12:01 pm Post subject: Re: Gentoo...

lx · Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 12:07 pm Post subject:

Hope its got nothing to do with an inode-count of your ext2/ext3 filesystem. Don't think its a bug, and especially not one having to do with the distro. if you have ext2/3 try tune2fs -l /dev/hda? (/var/tmp partition) and check your inode counts. Think you have to look in this direction rather then stating its a bug.

Cya lX.

Ps: Debian is the best alternative (binary, bit outdated, but stable), Mandrake is the user friendly (A step between turning to linux from windows, also binary).
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danielrm26 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 92

danielrm26 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 92

I just got in a new hard drive, one of the special edition Western Digitals, and I am anxious to redo my main Gentoo box.

I just want to make sure that I have found the cause of my problem so that I can maybe avoid it this time.

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klieber · Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 6:24 pm Post subject:

danielrm26 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 92

I have done that already.

When I went to install it again it threw the same error.

Also, when I try to update world it gives me the same error with libpcap.

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Do you think that I could have omitted some USE options that caused this?

Also, I have XFS on one system and EXT3 on the other...so i agree that it probably isn't a filesystem problem.

Thanks for the help you guys are offering...
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