Blocked package sys-fs/udev

RobinVossen · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 132

Well I wanted to Emerge Truecrypt on this system.
Normaly I could just do it.
But now Ill get a Blocked Package.
and ive never heard of the package that blocks.
I need to get sys-fs/udev-115-r1 and its getting blocked by sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.22-r5

How can I emerge it without Hurting my system?
After reading the part of Blocked Packages I think I found out what they do.
So, well umm I dont want to destory my system.
After Googling Device-mapper I found out it does do something for LVM. I dont have LVM

Cheers

Robin
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FranZ · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject:

I couldn't find why this should be a problem, but could you just paste the emerge command and it's output? That might help in finding the cause, even if you have given this information. sys-fs/udev-115-r1 requires at least sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.19-r1 to be installed, else it won't merge. Based on that, it should just install if the versions are those you have given.
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djinnZ · Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject:

try (after a backup via binary package) if emerge -C device-mapper ; emerge -1Nu udev work
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cyrre · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 26

I installed truecrypt on a fresh Gentoo-install yesterday and experienced the same issue.

All i did was to upgrade udev first and then truecrypt emerged without a problem.

LChiampo · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

Also I got the same problem UDEV blocked against Device-Mapper.

Unfortunately I di USE LVM2 so as far as I understand I need boths of them.

Here is the system output I get... seems a LOOP??? between the 2 packages?

gsoe · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject:

LChiampo:

Try

litos083082 · n00b Joined: 10 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

after several tries at trying to install gentoo, i finally made it. Now i'm trying to install gnome .. (emerge gnome) and i get a message that says there something is blocked(sorry don't know the terminology.. very new to linux)
after running another command suggested the by message i get...

[blocks B] <sys-fs/udev-115-r1> (is blocking sys-fs/device-mapper=1.02.22-r5)

not sure what do do... any help would be nice.. hehe i hope i don't need to reinstall everything again hehe

mjf55 · Guru Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 372

device-mapper-1.02.22-r5 ebuild says

RobinVossen · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 132

Yey it works.
But I cant install Truecrypt...

since I use a OpenVZ kernel and this is into a OpenVZ Virtual Envoirment.
So Basically he cant access the kernel.. (At least I think thats the problem)
Since I get the Die Msg,

bluejaydream · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2007 Posts: 18

this was very useful to me, things have gone so smoothly now that i am literate to the forum

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tomerl · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 4

i'm hopeless at this point.
i've got the same error complaining about blocked packages. the same packages here.
however, when i'm running emerge udev, i'm getting errors about name resolution and eventually failed to fetch.
it's happened only with udev, anything else i can emerge.

desultory · Administrator Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 6901

donjames · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject: emerge lvm2 problem

I was trying to emerge lvm2 and getting blocked packages.

I did: