emerge sync gives "need-gnustep-gui"

tewlz · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2002 Posts: 53

Judging by the other posts tonight, I think it's safe to say that portage is under the weather?

tharasix · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 5:40 am Post subject:

I'll just put a "ditto" in here. emerge sync does seem to complete, but I've gotten this problem on two different boxes.

Chad Martin

Isaiah · Guru Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 359

wazow · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:48 am Post subject:

same here on x86 (stable)...

Emerge sync terminated, but I am worried about the state of my portage cache right now. Perhaps it is better if others do not sync, until some dev comments on the issue.

vulcan_ · n00b Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 61 Location: Gent, Belgium

i finally work thru the bugs in the apache, tcl and PHP ebuilds - finished all that last night, and get the whole thing to build .. so i figure to check if anything changed in the last 4 days and do emerge sync. surprize surprize .. NOT!

someone(s) submitted a whole bunch of broken ebuilds in the last couple of days and now emerge -u world wants to download another gigabyte of files - but it cant because whoever was playing with the PHP ebuild has totoally hosed it up and it spits out errors about the php-4.3.2 ebuild that i thought was completely removed from my system.

that was last night .. this morning, hoping that some nice person in a North American timezone had fixed the problem i did emerge sync again, and now i have the problem reported in this thread and portage is totally hosed up by another bug.

man oh man this stuff pisses me off. i see lots of testimonials from people about how good the gentoo release is, and how responsive the forums are .. i say it would be a damn site better if these forums were dead because noone had problems with installing. In the last 2 years i have never had a clean emerge -u .. always bugs in the ebuilds to solve.

is anyone testing on a range of platforms before inflicting bad product on us .. or are we signing up to be alpha testers by downloading the LiveCD?

<< not a happy camper today!!
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nyda · Apprentice Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 183

I had quite a lot of fine "emerge -u"'s. I'd even say the average ebuild quality has gotten a lot better since last year.

vulcan_ · n00b Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 61 Location: Gent, Belgium

well, i should have griped " .. have we signed up to be _involuntary_ alpha testers .." to better convey my ironic intention ..

but i am feeling much better now that i have vented

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labrador · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 316

One problem is that the package groups gnustep-apps and
app-gnustep appear to be redundant. Looking at the modification
dates I might guess that gnustep-apps is the later one
and the other one should be removed.

It seems that the "line 7" reference must be to one of these ebuilds:

gwlinden · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 10:47 am Post subject:

I'm having the same problem, and my package cache seems corrupted. Emacs now reports as not installed (and I'm using it daily...), and I get Package in world file is not installed errors when running emerge.

Anybody know what the best course of action is?
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steap · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:02 am Post subject:

_FD_ · n00b Joined: 06 Aug 2004 Posts: 37

I would suggest putting easydiff and talksoup to the package filter, and than emerge sync again.

wazow · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:12 am Post subject:

Anarconda · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 54

I still have the problem.

fafhrd · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 1:43 pm Post subject: well

I'm taking care of the new GNUstep ebuilds; to make a long story short, the old ones where very antiquated and such. In July or so, I used epkgmove to move the GNUstep ebuilds to new categories in the tree; I'm not sure if it was a bug or something, but app-gnustep category did not get removed.

To fix this:

labrador · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 316

I tried your tip on blowing away the old package group from /usr/portage
and then doing "emerge sync" again.

I get these errors:

wazow · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 2:02 pm Post subject: Re: well

wazow

labrador · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 316

I suspect that something was refreshed on the rsync server
at around the top of the hour (which is the window in which this
is supposed to happen). I ran emerge sync again and it
performed without an error.

throck · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 39

I am still unable to emerge anything. The last time I ran "emerge sync" I also got the errors of "Failed cache update" for a whole ton of packages. When I attempt to "emerge -u portage" I get a bunch of errors about "Error in <packagename> Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild."

If I attempt an emerge sync now, I get a message that I am up to date and do not need to sync. So I can't sync to get the latest info and I can't emerge anything.

<update>
I was able to emerge sync again, but am still getting the "Failed cache update" for all packages.

fafhrd · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject:

throck-

the mirrors will start denying you after the 2nd rsync or so a day -- you really only need to do this once a day at most -- so this may be the cause of your errors.

and just for clarity:

Anarconda · n00b Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 54

throck · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2004 Posts: 39

fafhrd - thanks!

I'll wait until tomorrow and give it a shot again.

cappaberra · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 10:03 pm Post subject:

thanks fafhrd... worked for me.

-cappaberra