[SOLVED]gnome-power-manager

sgarcia · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 4:02 am Post subject: [SOLVED]gnome-power-manager

A world update just upgraded gnome to 2.32.0. Everything seems to have successfully upgraded except for gnome-power-manager.

The gnome-power-manager emerge seems to fail while processing the docbook2man sections. That really interesting part is that I have the "-doc" USE flag set.

idella4 · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 11:55 am Post subject:

sgarcial
just where & how is the -doc set?
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sgarcia · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 2:19 pm Post subject:

It's set globally.

But just to be sure, I just set it explicitly in package.use, and tried again. I get the same failure mode.
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idella4 · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 2:59 pm Post subject:

sgarcia
will need a little more to go on.

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

docbook2man is a part of app-text/docbook-sgml-utils.

sgarcia · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2010 4:30 pm Post subject:

I'm using my own overlay -- it's just the stock gentoo gnome, edited to remove evolution, epiphany, and gnome-screensaver. I have no idea where any of the docbook stuff came from -- they may have been pulled as a dependency from some other package. As far as I can tell, docbook2man came from app-text/docbook-sgml-utils. There seems to be a tie-in to tetex, so it's probably quite old.

Hold the fort!

I just unmerged app-text/docbook-sgml-utils, and finally gnome-power-manager built successfully.

Thanks! I never would have thought to look for that. I'm also having trouble with texlive-basic-2010, maybe this is related...
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VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

Randomly unmerging packages rarely helps - you've most likely just hidden the real bug.

desimo · n00b Joined: 18 Jan 2007 Posts: 12 Location: St. Louis, MO

In this case VoidMage was correct, as unmerging did not help for me.

The key was to emerge dev-perl/SGMLSpm, as detailed https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-473947-highlight-docbook2man.html

wjholden · l33t Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 826 Location: Augusta, GA

I also had trouble installing gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager-3.8.2. As desimo recommended, I was finally able to fix it by reinstalling dev-perl/SGMLSpm-1.03-r6.

Josef.95 · Advocate Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 4546 Location: Germany