Cannot install ut2004

nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 594 Location: USA

I keep getting an odd portage error every time I try to install ut2004:

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Put some debugging statements in unpack_makeself() in /usr/portage/eclass/eutils.eclass, e.g.:

nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 594 Location: USA

Thanks for the suggestion. I started poking around here, but then ran into another problem. When I make any changes at all to eutils.class, portage slows down tremendously. Even if I undo the changes, portage remains slow. I can only recover by doing a fresh emerge --sync.

I know this sounds odd, but check it out:

nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 594 Location: USA

Any other suggestions here? Has anyone ever seen this behavior from portage? I'm truly stumped as to why this would happen, unless perhaps portage has some kind of timestamp checking to protect against tampering. Even then, though, I'd expect it to display a warning/error message or something rather than just slowing down to the point of being nearly unusable for no apparent reason.

I'd really appreciate any other feedback. Should I file a bug report on this?

Thanks.
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

No idea. Maybe another nfs problem. Can't see it being a problem with the ut2004 ebuilds, anyway.

nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 594 Location: USA

I thought of that, too, and tried copying all of the install files locally (since I have plenty of hard drive space on this new system

). However, I have the exact same issue whether I use a local or network share.

Sigh...

Thanks for your suggestions. I'll poke around at it some more and see if I have any luck, and if not I'll just post a bug report. Not really sure what else I can do at this point, and something is definitely wrong.

Thanks again.
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nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 594 Location: USA

I tried debugging this some more tonight, but still haven't had any luck. The echo statements I added for src seem to indicate that it contains the correct file path, and I just can't figure out why it's failing.

I filed bug 175301 about this. Paul - thanks for trying to help.

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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

I think that bash/toolchain is broken on your PC - run:

nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 594 Location: USA

Alright, I did a complete emerge -e system, performed another --sync and -Dauv world, and even rebooted just for good measure. However, I still have the same issue. Argh!!

I tried messing around with the echo suggestion earlier, but didn't have any luck. It was actually really weird - adding the echo statements somehow changed the behavior of the programs. For example, when I added a few echo statements to find_unpackable_file(), I'd get an error at a later point. Then when I added echos to unpack_makeself(), it'd actually proceed through the function and act like it was copying files from the CDs. Ultimately, though, it'd still fail, as I never actually changed anything that it should have been doing.

I've seen plenty of stuff that fails for no apparent reason before, but this takes it to a whole new level.

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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

If your PC is failing randomly, then try running sys-apps/memtest86+ overnight.

nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 594 Location: USA

I'll try memtest86 just out of sheer desperation at this point, but I'm certain that isn't the problem. This is not random failure - this is repeated failure in the same spot for no apparent reason. There's a difference, subtle it may be.

Will post back the results, though, just to rule that possibility out.
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nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 594 Location: USA

Just out of curiosity, has anyone else run into this yet? Or does anyone perhaps have any fresh ideas on how to fix this? It's been over a year since I built my new system, and I'm still unable to install Unreal Tournament 2004. Every other game I've tried to install and run has worked perfectly fine, and I simply cannot figure out why the ebuild fails so miserably.

Any help would be most appreciated.
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Raptor85 · Apprentice Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 208

Never ran into it before, but also FYI if you're itching to get 2k4 up and running, you can install it directly from the disk without the need to use portage. (installer and all files are on your cd's/dvd) then patch from unrealadmin.org. patches were infrequent and really at this point there shouldn't be any more so there's not any huge benefit at using a package manager for it.