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PostPosted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:34 pm    Post subject: !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the ... Reply with quote

Based on my experience, just point at the latest /profiles you see.
So do a

Code:
ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1 /etc/make.profile


Let us know if it works -- and try to stay out of boiling water! :D
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

like someone said, 2006.1 isn't ready yet, use 2006.0 .

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2006.1/2006.1.xml
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:23 pm    Post subject: Re: !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the ... Reply with quote

pcardout wrote:

Let us know if it works -- and try to stay out of boiling water! :D


Don't put the blame on me, it's emerge's fault if I plunged into boiling water!

Everything was working perfectly before I emerged --sync: who removed the 2005.1 directory? Emerge did it.

:)

I'm not going to power on my PC for weeks and weeks as I have a newborn baby at home and I can "play" with my PC really seldom if ever. Anyway, I'll let you know if it works (sooner or later...).

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 6:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just wanted to say that I had the exact same problem.

emerge --sync on a old innstall.
And that deleted my 2005.0 profile.


did a

#rm /etc/make.profile
#ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 /etc/make.profile

And then I could use emerge as normal again :D
Thanks for the help. Even if it wasn't intended to help me :P
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Had the same thing here. How about changing the error-message so it contains an URL of the part of the Gentoo-Handbook where the solution can be found? Having to search the forums might be hard for new/unexperienced users of Gentoo? Shall I file a bug for it?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:42 am    Post subject: Re: !!! ARCH is not set... Are you missing the ... Reply with quote

another_lobster wrote:
[Anyway, I'll let you know if it works (sooner or later...).


Here I am again. Yes, It works!

I did what arndawg did and up to now everything seems to be working properly.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I also had a machine with a pretty un-synced version of Gentoo, same problem and same solution as arndawg:

arndawg wrote:
I just wanted to say that I had the exact same problem.

emerge --sync on a old innstall.
And that deleted my 2005.0 profile.


did a

#rm /etc/make.profile
#ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.0 /etc/make.profile

And then I could use emerge as normal again :D
Thanks for the help. Even if it wasn't intended to help me :P


Allways nice to find help to problems in the forums.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, I guess I hadn't synced in a while either...I just got the same problem... :oops:
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:14 am    Post subject: ARCH not set for amd64 2005.0 Reply with quote

I had the same issue. I had:

Code:

ls -l /etc/make.profile --> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0


Then I did an emerge --sync and got the ARCH not set error. Apparantly the sync dropped the 2005.0 profile. To fix the error, I just did:

Code:

unlink /etc/make.profile
ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2006.0 /etc/make.profile


And all was well. Why did the sync take away the profile? I don't know but it was rather rude to break my portage tree like that.

Hope this helps someone else !!!
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