configure error expected absolute directory name for datadir

roarkh · Edit: Unstuck (2006-03-11) --Maedhros

I just did an emerge -u system and all went fine but now I can't seem to emerge anything else.

Here is some example output of what I am getting...

embobo · Guru Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 311

I have the same problem. This may be ugly. Did you just upgrade glibc?

Try this command:

roarkh · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 4:45 am Post subject:

Thanks for your reply. I did just upgrade glibc.

When I try your command this is what I get...

bincache · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 17

Same problem, just did an emerge -u portage to grab the latest version, seemed to work fine glibc was one of the updated pacakges, but the rest of the package list is out of my scroll buffer so I can't paste it.

Any emerge results in about the same thing, failure on expr with the message below:

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Genone · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 5:05 am Post subject:

For the record: I'm on an ~amd64 system here with coreutils-5.94, bash-3.1_p8 and glibc-2.3.6-r2 and not seeing any of the mentioned problems, maybe that helps in narrowing it down.

bincache · n00b Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 17

Results:

I created a binary package for coreutils-5.93 and coreutils-5.94 as well as glibc

When I reverted glibc the problem persisted, but when I reverted to coreutils-5.93 the problem went away.

Seems to me that your tentitive guess was correct. :)

Thanks for the help! :D

Edit:
~x86 with coreutils-5.94 bash-3.1_p8 glibc-2.3.6-r3 <- Problem persists in this setup

Downgrading to coreutils-5.93 fixed it

embobo · Guru Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 311

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hbk3131 · n00b Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 3

I'm not saying it is definatly a coreutils(package providing expr) problem but 'expr' is returning the wrong values and i atleast was able to copy the /bin/expr from a stage3 tarball ( both amd64 and x86 worked for eaches selected arch) to get a temp fix the problem. I'm downgrading coreutils on a emerge -e world right now so I'll get back to you if it work

[Amd64]
expr a : '\(a\)'
Segfault (should return a)

expr help : '(help)'
4294967295 ( should return 0)

expr help : help
4 (should return 4, This is ok on amd64)

[x86]
expr a : '\(a\)'
(should return a)

expr help : '(help)'
4294967295 ( should return 0)

expr help : help
577921419141185540 (should return 4)

Downgrade of coreutils-5.93 does resolve this issue

~x86 with coreutils-5.94 bash-3.1_p8 glibc-2.3.6-r3 <--- Agreed
~amd64 with coreutils-5.94 bash-3.1_p8 glibc-2.3.6-r3 <---Also problem

Grooby · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 47

arg...i am having this problem...but i can't even emerge =coreutils-5.93....any idea?

[edit]
nevermind..i am a retard...
scp expr from my other amd64 box (which for some reason, was able to use the new coreutils and the new glib) to my broken box, reemerge coreutils 5.93, and everything seems ok. Might re-emerge 5.94 again later just to see...

[edit]
ok...so after all that and re-emerge coreutils 5.94, expr broke again. copy it from my other box and continue....now the question is..how do we submit this bug?

friedmud · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 6:28 am Post subject:

Just like to note that I am also having this problem...

I had unfortunately put ~x86 into my accept_keywords on my laptop (doing some testing... I know I know it shouldn't be done that way blah blah blah ;-)

and forgot to take it out before doing an emerge -u world..... doh

This is what I get for not following the rules I suppose...

It's too late to grab a livecd and get this fixed... it'll have to wait for tomorrow (my desktop is AMD64... so I can't just grab it off there).

Friedmud

meebee · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 4

Copying /bin/expr from an older installation solved the problem for me.
I didn't have to downgrade the complete coreutils package.

chunderbunny · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:57 am Post subject:

According to bug 123342 this is actually a problem with the new bash.

gruftie · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 161

Genone · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:37 pm Post subject:

In case anybody is interested in doing some testing, I've uploaded my working expr binary from coreutils-5.94 install to dev.gentoo.org/~genone/temp/expr, I'd be curious if it works or fails for people who got the problem fixed by downgrading coreutils.

RaZoR1394 · Guru Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Posts: 356

Didn't see this thread... It's the same problem I had. As I see dpgk doesn't emerge but what you could do is emerge deb2targz. It should emerge fine and then you can convert the .deb package to *.tar.gz. If I have time I can upload all the 5.93 coreutils expr binaries to my server.
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Maedhros · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:53 pm Post subject:

I've just managed to get expr to segfault when I rebuilt coreutils with the acl USE flag. Without it, no segfaults.
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RaZoR1394 · Guru Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Posts: 356

Here are the working Ubuntu Coreutils 5.93 expr binaries:

amd64 :arrow:

http://www.razoreye.org/files/expr-amd64/expr
i386 :arrow:

http://www.razoreye.org/files/expr-i386/expr
ppc :arrow:

http://www.razoreye.org/files/expr-ppc/expr

Copy them to /usr/bin. After that I would mask Coreutils 5.94 and emerge the previous one (5.93):

Genone · Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:59 pm Post subject:

nesl247 · Veteran Joined: 15 Jun 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: Florida

I don't get any errors with coreutils. Using nxsty's glibc 2.3.90 overlay if it ever comes down to glibc..

agent_jdh · Veteran Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 1767 Location: Scotland

I've got this problem here, but it only seems to have appeared for me with coreutils-5.94-patches-1.2.tar.bz2. 5.94 worked fine here with the old patchset 1.1.

I'll try going back to the older patchset (if I can) when I've got a minute to spare.

EDIT - Doh! of course, coreutils won't build now because of the problem, so I can't check right now, but the fact it now won't build when it did 30 minutes ago convinces me even more that it's the 1.2 patchset that's the problem here.

EDIT #2 - Oh well, it isn't patchset 1.2. Downgraded to 1.1 and things are still broken. 5.94 now masked.
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Konsti · l33t Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 688

The expr replacement worked fine.
That was a bit more eaysy than messing with a stage3 chroot

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