Missing dependencies - /sbin/depscan [SOLVED]

jonathanhaddock · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 19

Problem:
When starting Gentoo the system says:

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

Remove the file which failed the digest check, move the package directory aside (out of $PORTDIR), emerge --sync and try emerge -u world again.

cyclocross · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:01 pm Post subject:

I had the exact same problem you did, and I did depscan.sh -u and it complained about mktemp. I did a emerge -avt mktemp then started my network which then started just fine. Then rebooted, and all was good. I hope this helps you out.

Eric

pmatos · Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject:

brownowl · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2002 Posts: 31

I just had the same thing happen on one of my servers. This is potentially disastrous, as it affects ssh... mktemp needs to be re-rmerged for some bizarre reason!

soundg · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 8

This might work for me except mktemp is not cached in my portage tree. So emerge needs to download mktemp, but my eth0 won't start. Nifty huh? Update world and get flushed down the drain again. Any ideas gentoo gurus?

Sorry for the sarcasm, but things breaking after updates is getting really old.

soundg · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 8

I uesd these two commands to get my eth0 running.

GentooMatic · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Posts: 9

nixnut · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Portage & Programming.
not about getting gentoo installed, so moved here
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g3n · Guru Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 543 Location: México

That worked for me too. Thanks
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jonathanhaddock · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 19

# /sbin/depscan.sh -u
complained about mktemp as you said.
Re-emerged mktemp and all is well - it had been removed

Thanks again!

lorebett · Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject: Re: Thanks everyone

alsancle · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Mass

I didn't have dhcpd for some reason?? So I booted from the live cd, manually started the network, mounted the file system, then emerged mktemp, ran depscan and rebooted. This worked.

xedivad · n00b Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Posts: 1

does anyone here think this is acceptable ? Can a simple emerge world delete an executable that causes system boot problems

??!!?? who's responsible for this ??

pmatos · Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject:

mgillespie · Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 170

+1

This bug is totally unacceptable..

I was pretty hacked off with the gradual slide in quaility of Gentoo since Daniel Robbins left, this just furthers my opinion of this...

I am starting to look at other Linux based OSes that take reliability seriously...

blueflame · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:46 am Post subject:

If you don't have dhcpd installed (like me) the following sequence of commands brought up my network:

ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
route add default gw 192.168.1.253

By way of explanation:
- 192.168.1.1 is the IP Address of my Gentoo box
- 192.168.1.253 is the IP Address of my internet router

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

What's the problem? /usr/portage/sys-apps/debianutils/debianutils-2.17.4.ebuild contains PDEPEND="sys-apps/mktemp", so mktemp will be installed after debianutils. Here's the stabilization bug.

lorebett · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 8:18 am Post subject:

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Looking at the CVS history for debianutils-2.17.4, it's contained PDEPEND="sys-apps/mktemp" since 7-Dec-2006.

Did you run emerge -pvDuN world at the time and see mktemp available? I upgraded debianutils, and installed mktemp, on 4-March. It was automatic, as part of emerge -DuN world

lorebett · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject:

I ran emerge -u world at that time...
probably I had to add some more switches besides -u?
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lorebett · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:09 am Post subject:

I've been using emerge -u for 2 years without problems so I never read that part of man page (OK, shame on me :wink:

)

however, I think that vDN should probably be implied by the --update option, otherwise, as in this case, an update might break the system; and from what I see from this thread (which I haven't started myself) I'm not the only one who's using --update for updating a system

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mabap · n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 6

I also use `emerge --update world` since a long time. Since when are further options necessary (except the occasional --deep). If a package removes a critical file, it should reinstall a replacement (or at least warn about it).

BTW, if network setup is too complicated to do by hand (e.g. DSL setup), one can use the following as temporary /bin/mktemp (remember to make it executable)

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