[SOLVED] Circular dependencies, can't emerge anything

superseal · n00b Joined: 17 Dec 2013 Posts: 3

Right after installing Gentoo I tried installing sudo but got an error about circular dependencies between gcc and glib, which surprises me because sudo would be the first package I install on my just installed Gentoo. I doubt it's an install-time user error because everything else is working fine but I'm considering that possibility as well.

Tried breaking the cycle by installing glib with --nodeps and there was an error at the end of the install saying some file collisions were detected but the install was completed anyway. After that, more and more cycles started to appear until everything became a huge cycle and I'm at a point where I can't install absolutely anything, even without --nodeps. I've already tried deleting /usr/portage and running emerge-webrsync, and doing emerge --sync; emerge -uDN world many times.

I used genkernel during the install (first time doing so, used to manually compile the kernel before this). I installed some Ethernet modules in the menuconfig but that's it. This is also the first time installing Gentoo to this PC, but everything else (ping, nano, top and other already installed utilities) seems to be working. The stage3 tarball I used was the 20131212 snapshot and the portage snapshot was the latest as of today (20131217/portage-latest). I put my /var directory in a different disk to avoid excessive wear on my new SSD, if that matters.

My make.conf is

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

While your useflags may seem conservative, they'll only turn that way after some of the basic packages get installed.

Any dependency cycle should be considered separately - usually is should be breakable by temporarily unsetting a useflag or two on a package.

Perhaps before you start emerging new packages, you should spin 'emerge -upvDN --with-bdeps y @world' a couple times till the situation clears up ?

superseal · n00b Joined: 17 Dec 2013 Posts: 3

Tried emerge -upvDN --with-bdeps y @world many times to no avail.

I did include those USE flags during the initial install. In the case those USE flags are the reason for the circular dependencies, is there any way of undoing those without reinstalling the whole system? Maybe redownloading the stage3 tarball. I already tried commenting out the USE env variable, but that didn't work either.

mgranet · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2013 Posts: 8 Location: Michigan

What is the output of

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

Honestly...

Pastebin the full output of one of such conflicts.

wjb · Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 11:17 am Post subject:

Also post the output from

superseal · n00b Joined: 17 Dec 2013 Posts: 3

I solved the problem by reinstalling the system.

The conflicts looked exactly like the ones in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-812003-start-0.html, but I noticed there were some other conflicts as well (xz-utils<->coreutils, perl<->pretty much everything) and decided to reinstall the whole system.

A few things I did while reinstalling (but forgot to do in the previous install):
* Mounted /dev/sdb1 /mnt/gentoo/var
* Disabled USE flags altogether when editing make.conf for the first time
* Picked a different mirror (using osuosl.org)

When fetching the portage tree, there was a message that hadn't appeared in the first install: