emerge howl failure [SOLVED]

castrik · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 31

i am trying to

AliasXZ · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:04 pm Post subject:

does it say anything about /sys/kernel ? i had that error from howl
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castrik · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 31

no errors about /sys/kernel just a page long flood of ethtool syntax errors.

AliasXZ · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:08 pm Post subject:

did u use genkernel?
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castrik · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 31

yes , sorry i'll add that to the original post.

AliasXZ · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject:

ok this is what i did:

compiled my kernel by not using genkernel, causes a prob for some reason... then:

castrik · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 31

i am using 2.6 headers and now running a non-genkernel kernel, glibc has also been recompiled, however the problem, with the same errors still occurs. can anyone help me?

JORUNO · n00b Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 8

I have problem to emerge howl too. I'm using Gentoo 2005.0.
Can any one tell me how to fix this problem?

Frank Lorenz · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 14

I encountered the same error with howl during a "emerge gnome", I think

Perhaps the following info helps someone to identify the problem: ???

The errors are encountered inside /usr/include/linux/ethtool.h. Compiler reports tons of "parse error before "__u64" " or other data type declarations like "__u32".
The ethtool.h is included by posix_interface.c of howl. The last error message complains that the storage size of 'edata' is not known, where 'edata' is a 'ethtool_value' struct containing two "__u32" data words. For me, it looks like these data type declarations are unknown inside ethtool.h (which does not include anything), so perhaps there is an include missing in posix_interface.c???

best regards,
Frank

todw1fd · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 93

Do a search on bugs.gentoo.org for 84030. I unmerged headers and remerged headers and glibc which did nothing for howl. added net-misc/howl ~x86 to package.keywords and emerged howl again and it compiled successfully. I believe the ebuild version is 0.9.8. Try it and see if it helps.

Frank Lorenz · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 14

What do you mean with

Frank Lorenz · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 14

Ups, I just found the solution (haven't read enough man pages, I think :roll:

)

For all readers: You can create a package.keywords file inside /etc/portage and add the line

etrek · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 58

It worked for me on my opteron (using the ~amd64 instead of ~x86)

That's cool, thanks much!

E.

SchmilK · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 11

As Homer Simpson once said

"yes YES OOOOOOOH YEEEEESSSSSS!!!"

FINALLY!!! I get to emerge kftpgrabber!! All imissed was "failed" from the search term emerge howl and now howl 0.9.8 is installed, and kftpgrabber just installed...FINALLY! :-)

Thanks SOOOOO much for the best support forum EVAAARRRRR!!!!!
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megaburn · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:37 pm Post subject:

I just moved two laptops over from Mandrake with the 'stock' 2005.0 iso's using emerge gnome xscreensaver and ran into this problem on both of them. Noting this problem and Frank's solution in the regular documentation would be very helpful for (most) new users.....

Thanks! This problem was driving me nuts.

-Chris
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Jameas · n00b Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 13

This (package.keywords) works for me, too. Thank you.

StevemE;eet · n00b Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 1

Hey,

I'm trying to compile gnome but i got the error

then i did what u said and downloaded 0.9.8
it still doesnt work

AliasXZ · Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 8:45 am Post subject:

whats the error? same one?
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Stagediver · n00b Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4

THANK YOU FRANK LORENZ !

I can only agree to SchmilK and megaburn: Thanks for this hint !! And yes, it should be put in the docs !

This works for me with a stage 3 athlon-xp installation of gentoo 2005.0 (having nothing installed but the pure kernel and system and then i wanted to install gnome-light and then this problem occured)

Thanks again !
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Kensai · Guru Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 568 Location: Puerto Rico

Thanks it worked Fine I wondered why this happened. Never though a package marked stable will give such an error.

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ironmind · n00b Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Pori, Finland

You might not want to add ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" to your make.conf coz then you'll accept to emerge potentially unstable versions of any software in the future. Instead I suggest you emerge just howl with the ~x86 flag.

Try this:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge howl

You can always see if there is a newer version of some software by comparing:
emerge "some_software" -vp and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge "some_software" -vp
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Azalit · n00b Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 12

make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving Directory /var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.6-r2/work/howl-0.9.6/src/lib/howl'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving Directory /var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.6-r2/work/howl-0.9.6/src/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving Directory /var/tmp/portage/howl-0.9.6-r2/work/howl-0.9.6/src'

:cry:

help please :cry:

p.n · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 124

Azalit · n00b Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 12

All right. I've no idea what to do. last night I tried to install gnome

checco · Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject:

Hi All,
I've applied all the suggestion, but the result is the same :cry:

....
when I