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Deathcrow
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 Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: [solved] coreutils-6.12: touch: "Function not implement |
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After emerging coreutils-6.12 my system now seems to be really screwed.
Emerge is now not working anymore because touch is reporting every time:
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touch: setting times of `/usr/porttmp/portage/media-video/gpac-0.4.4/.unpacked': Function not implemented
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What can i do? Should i try to grab another touch binary from somewhere? this seims really weird and i am afraid to reboot (touch seems kind of... important, i fear the system wont really reboot anymore)
Thx in advance!
PS: This seems kind of important, so i'd reeaaally appreciate quick help/replies.
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Deathcrow
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ok, i 'think' i fixed this, by grabbing a working /bin/touch from a friend of mine also running gentoo. I am currently downgrading to coreutils-6.10-r2 and hope this will work.
Still curious about what happened though. |
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NathanZachary
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| Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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When you had the problem, would emerge --unmerge still work, or did it not even work with that option?
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Deathcrow
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| Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| kalos wrote: | | When you had the problem, would emerge --unmerge still work, or did it not even work with that option? |
i did not test that. I guess it wouldnt have worked. Even a simple "mv" gave the error message (although it still moved the file, touch still complained).
I just had a look in the source code of touch.c . From coreutils-6.10 to 6.12 this line has been removed:
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#include "safe-read.h"
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Anyway, my package.keywords now contains the line "sys-apps/coreutils -~x86". This should fix this issue for me  |
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NathanZachary
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| Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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Excellent; thank you for posting your solution. If you would, kindly place [SOLVED] in the original thread title so that others can see your solution. 
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pappy_mcfae
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bunder
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:04 am Post subject: |
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=sys-apps/coreutils-6.12 is masked, moving.
Moved from Installing Gentoo to Unsupported Software.
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babychu
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:45 am Post subject: |
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I also have this problem after upgrading to coreutils 6.12.
Copy the "touch" from gentoo installation disk, mask 6.12 then emerge coreutils. |
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pappy_mcfae
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| babychu wrote: | I also have this problem after upgrading to coreutils 6.12.
Copy the "touch" from gentoo installation disk, mask 6.12 then emerge coreutils. |
Mask it? I suppose, but it's marked as ~arch, so you have to either be using an ~arch system, or you specifically unmasked it. Either way, it's kind of silly to mask an ostensibly masked package.
What I'm still wondering about is why it's working for me (day three on all systems), and so many others are having it nuke their systems. 
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| this thread just saved my sanity. Awesome |
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pmatos
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| Is there any way to solve this without a handy amd64 touch binary? Now I can't downgrade coreutils. |
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Another good reason to always have busybox on hand.
And FEATURES=buildsyspkg |
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| ExZombie wrote: | Another good reason to always have busybox on hand.
And FEATURES=buildsyspkg |
buildsyspkg? Does that even exist? If it does, doesn't seem to be documented in my make.conf. I only have buildpkg. |
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| pmatos wrote: | | ExZombie wrote: | Another good reason to always have busybox on hand.
And FEATURES=buildsyspkg |
buildsyspkg? Does that even exist? If it does, doesn't seem to be documented in my make.conf. I only have buildpkg. |
It's in my make.conf.example |
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pmatos
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| ExZombie wrote: | | pmatos wrote: | | ExZombie wrote: | Another good reason to always have busybox on hand.
And FEATURES=buildsyspkg |
buildsyspkg? Does that even exist? If it does, doesn't seem to be documented in my make.conf. I only have buildpkg. |
It's in my make.conf.example |
Must be recent then and I didn't notice the change. Change for letting me know. |
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pmatos
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:07 am Post subject: |
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Can someone please send me a touch binary for an amd64 which works? (can you please send me to pocmatos@gmail.com ?)
Thanks, I appreciate it. Please zip it to pass through the spam filters. |
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pmatos
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:37 am Post subject: |
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| pmatos wrote: | Can someone please send me a touch binary for an amd64 which works? (can you please send me to pocmatos@gmail.com ?)
Thanks, I appreciate it. Please zip it to pass through the spam filters. |
No need, I just compiled it myself from 6.10, thanks!
EDIT: Damn, the one I just compiled from 6.10-r2 has the same problem. How is this possible? |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:42 am Post subject: |
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| pappy_mcfae wrote: | I'm not having any problems after I updated to coreutils-6.12. I emerged a couple packages, and used touch. Both worked. I think you might have something else going on there...either that, or my systems are protected by unseen forces.
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True, my x86 installation of coreutils-6.12 also works. However, on amd64 it doesn't. But as posted, recompiling 6.10-r2 on my amd64 has the same problem. |
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pmatos
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:56 am Post subject: |
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| Does anybody know which use of touch generates the 'function not implemented issue'? |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| pmatos wrote: | | True, my x86 installation of coreutils-6.12 also works. However, on amd64 it doesn't. But as posted, recompiling 6.10-r2 on my amd64 has the same problem. |
And therein lies the real freaky thing. Coreutils is working on my 64 bit Core2. I simply don't understand it. But, far be it from me to paint the devil on the wall in hopes of bringing problems. For now, I remain happy that somehow, I have dodged yet another bullet that seems to be taking others out left and right.
Whew!
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| This behaviour should only come about if: You have a <2.6.22 kernel running + glibc >=2.7 + kernel-header >= 2.6.22. |
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sboy
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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For anyone else stumbling across this now, the bug report has a solution via patching. From the bug post it doesn't look like it's in portage yet. I don't know if it works.. I upgraded to a newer kernel since it was about time anyway, and that fixed the problem. Just a little extra info to make someone else's life a little easier.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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Yay, saved me too. Copying touch from a CD worked  . Wasn't able to emerge anything. |
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