emerge --newuse --deep --update @world "Failing"

[Featherfoot]

I am trying to do an "emerge --newuse --deep --update" as recommended before I do the "emerge --depclean" recommended by emerge.

I am puzzled by the messages I am getting. Portage seems to be recommending an unnecessary downgrade of gnome-menus. I don't understand why and I don't know how to get the problem resolved.

bopper jc # emerge --newuse --deep --update @world
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild UD ] gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.30.5 [3.0.1-r1] USE="(-introspection*)"
[blocks B ] <gnome-base/gnome-menus-3.0.1-r1:0 ("<gnome-base/gnome-menus-3.0.1-r1:0" is blocking gnome-base/gnome-menus-3.2.0.1-r1)

* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.

(gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.30.5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
gnome-base/gnome-menus:0[python] required by (gnome-extra/cinnamon-1.4::gentoo, installed)

(gnome-base/gnome-menus-3.2.0.1-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>=gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.29.10:3[introspection] required by (gnome-base/gnome-shell-3.2.2.1::gentoo, installed)
>=gnome-base/gnome-menus-3.1.4:3 required by (gnome-base/gnome-panel-3.2.1::gentoo, installed)
>=gnome-base/gnome-menus-3.2.0.1-r1:3[introspection] required by (gnome-extra/cinnamon-1.4::gentoo, installed)
gnome-base/gnome-menus:3 required by (gnome-base/gnome-control-center-3.2.2-r1::gentoo, installed)
>=gnome-base/gnome-menus-3.2:3 required by (gnome-base/gnome-core-apps-3.2.1::gentoo, installed)


For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked

bopper jc # emerge gnome-menus -p

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ~] gnome-base/gnome-menus-3.2.0.1-r1
bopper jc # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge gnome-menus -p

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-menus-3.2.0.1-r1
bopper jc # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge gnome-menus -pv

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-menus-3.2.0.1-r1 USE="introspection python -debug -test" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
bopper jc # emerge gnome-panel -p

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ~] gnome-base/gnome-panel-3.2.1
bopper jc # emerge gnome-control-center -p

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ~] gnome-base/gnome-control-center-3.2.2-r1
bopper jc # emerge gnome-core-apps -p

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ~] gnome-base/gnome-core-apps-3.2.1

emerge --info follows:

bopper jc # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.10.49 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.2.12-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.2.12-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_970_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.3
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3, 3.2.2
dev-util/cmake: 2.8.6-r4
dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3
sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5-r2
sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1
sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.1 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa amd64 ao apache2 apm audiofile avahi berkdb blas bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo calendar caps cdda cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cgi clamav cli consolekit cracklib crypt css ctype cups curl cvs cxx dbi dbm dbus dbx dga directfb dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr eds emboss encode enscript evo examples exif expat fam fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gdbm gdu gif gimp glu gmp gnome gnuplot gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gsl gsm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile gzip hal handbook hddtemp iconv icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib innodb introspection iodbc ipv6 jabber java java6 javascript jbig jingle jpeg jpeg2k kde kontact lapack lcms ldap libcaca libedit libgda libnotify libwww lm_sensors lua lzma lzo mad maildir mikmod milter mime mmap mmx mng modules motif mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mplayer msn mudflap multilib musepac mysql mysqli nas ncurses networkmanager nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc offensive ofx ogg opengl openmp osc oscar oss pam pango pch pcntl pcre pdf perl php plasma plotutils png policykit portaudio posix postgres ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3support qt4 quicktime raw rdesktop readline rss ruby samba sasl sdl semantic-desktop session sharedext sharedmem simplexml smp sndfile snmp soap sockets socks5 speex spell sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion suid svg symlink sysfs syslog sysvipc szip tcl tcpd theora threads tidy tiff timiditytk tokenizer truetype udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wmf x264 xcb xcomposite xft xine xinerama xinetd xml xnlrpc xorg xosd xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nouveau" XFCE_PLUGINS="brightness menu trash" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

bopper jc #

[BillWho]

Featherfoot,

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[Featherfoot]

[BillWho]

Featherfoot,

The couple of times I had a package blocking a newer package I just unmerged it and installed the newer. I'm not sure though of the reason why gnome-base/gnome-menus is getting downgraded.

Did you install gnome with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"? That might be the reason as I see there's no complaints when you issue ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge gnome-menus -p or emerge gnome-menus -p. The latter confuses me. I thought it would pull gnome-base/gnome-menus-2.30.5!

For now if you want to continue with the -depclean, add gnome-base/gnome-menus to package.mask and see if that prevents the error

Good luck

[Featherfoot]

I did have >=gnome-base/gnome-menus-3.2.0.1 set up in /etc/package.keywords. That's what was puzzling me.

I eventually set the gnome-menus version number to >=gnome-base/gnome-menus-3.0.1. That fixed it.

Apparently portage was confused by the 3.0.1 version in portage which was a candidate to be emerged even though a later version was unmasked, and in fact, already emerged...

Thanks for your help.