SOLVED - emerge gentoo-sources fails

nosenseofhumor1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 114

when i try to emerge gentoo-sources i get an error. i dont have the exact text anymore but it complains that ebuild.sh doesnt exist then says it cant remove /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.2/portage-2.1.2.2.ebuild and that i should remove it manually if necessary.

just to see if that really matters i run emerge --resume and suddenly i get
bash: /usr/bin/emerge: no such file or directory

and i ls /usr/bin/em

it comes back with /usr/bin/emerge highlighted in red with white letters. when i ls -hal, i see that it points to /usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge which doesnt exist. the only thing in /usr/lib/portage/bin is another red and white file called donewins which points to newins, which doesnt exist.

so, i just tried to unpack the portage snapshot into usr again. it threw up:
tar: bzip2: cannot exec: no such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

so what... bzip2 is missing as well??

this the second time back to back this has happened. last time i went back to the beginning and started over.
there isnt anything interesting in dmesg.

oh, this might be noteworthy too: when i emerge gentoo-sources it says its already there and wants to rebuild it. so i tell it yes. then its all down hill from there.

what the hell happened!??!?

anonybosh · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:25 am Post subject:

Have you checked the emerge log (/var/log/emerge.log)?
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nosenseofhumor1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 114

okay according to the log, it completes the emerge of gentoo-sources-2.6.20-r8 to /
the first problem the log shows is during cleanup:

!!! unmerge FAILURE: sys-apps/portage-2.1.2.2
*** terminating.

as part of the clean up it unmerges bzip2 (hmm), binutils, hdparm, openssh, findutils, and several others i havent checked yet, all of which seem to actually really be gone now!

anonybosh · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:34 am Post subject:

Had you restored parts or most of the system from a backup prior to noticing these problems?

It sounds to me like your portage files have become skewed--and the way that I solved that problem for myself in the past was to remove /usr/portage/* and re-sync.
_________________
And yea verily as the sun shall rise in the East and the Pope is Catholic
and bears crap in the woods, yea verily the setting up of the Nvidia drivers
shall be way more problematic than it should be, thus is it written, amen.
-- wsanders (Slashdot)

nosenseofhumor1 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 114

yes, and that looks like it worked.

additionally i had to format /var again to get rid of a phantom file. it was complaining that octave-vorge wasnt a real file. its permissions read "???????" owner group "? ?" and when i tried to delete it it wouldnt go anywhere.

but im mid emerge -newuse and things look happy.

thanks for the help!