Quick fix for e2fsprogs, com_err, and ss blockers

l_bratch · Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 494 Location: Jersey

The latest stable portage does not handle this on its own - I just tried to update a system that hadn't been updated in a while. Started with installing the latest stable portage, but still had the block.

ianw1974 · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject:

I also noticed it's still happening even today, and even without mit-krb5 installed. I guess the bug is still outstanding but at least the solution posted here fixes it

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farmchild · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 11

I'm in dire need of help here. I ran into the blocking issue, and followed the steps outline here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234907#c7:

richard.scott · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:58 pm Post subject:

I think I followed that same bug report too.... hence me starting this thread as i had similar results to you and I didn't find a way to fix my PC :-(

You could try using a Gentoo LiveCD and seeing if you can chroot in and emerge the required tools that way?

farmchild · n00b Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 11

I could do that, but I'm not sure what the required packages would be in this case.

richard.scott · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:35 pm Post subject:

kly84g · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 55 Location: Houston

This is not fixed. I made a new installation (x86) from a 2008.0-r1 image downloaded yesterday.
Did

richard.scott · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:02 am Post subject:

Did you notice the small 'b' in your output:

kly84g · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 55 Location: Houston

richard.scott · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:51 pm Post subject:

What options you used for portage as I get this output:

kly84g · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 55 Location: Houston

richard.scott · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:40 pm Post subject:

kly84g · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 55 Location: Houston

Neither do I. But for reference if someone else has the same problem, here is what I did to solve it:

DancesWithWords · Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:24 am Post subject:

Ya, I had the same problem and eventually solved it. It was the second most annoy bug in gentoo, next to the compats fiasco. But I eventually solve that with help from the forums as well.

Muddy · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:02 pm Post subject:

Thanks all for the tips, I just unmerged ss and com_err and emerge -e world, all seems to be fine now.

rizzurant · Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 4:28 pm Post subject:

thanks for everyone
solved just emerge e2fsprogs

Tuxenstein · Apprentice Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 155

I'll start this off by saying that I realize this is going to sound like an incredibly stupid question (and I have been following this thread), but after a few "close calls" too many in the past whenever doing an update to Gentoo (at least, the past few times), I'm not willing to try and risk taking anymore chances--however, I know I'm going to have to try and get past this and am going to need to update things.

Admittedly, after the problems associated with this happened to someone I know, I tried to avoid doing any updates since October. :oops:

Especially as I haven't access to a rescue or even Live CD nor a burner at the moment and basically spend almost all my time in Gentoo and therefore can't risk being without it.

Having said that, I did update portage to the latest version of it (1Q-2009) and am getting the error message regarding the blocked packages with respect to com_err and ss with e2fsprogs and want to know what would be the "easiest" method to use to get past this issue without potentially "hosing" my system in the process? I can't just seem to emerge e2fsprogs without getting the blocked packages notice.

Thanks in advance for any help on this!

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richard.scott · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:09 am Post subject:

Tuxenstein · Apprentice Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 155

Thank you, both!

I'm about to try it out.

In answer to the small "b" versus capital "B" situation with this, both those packages are showing up as capital "B" for me--so I'm going to have to go through with the steps posted.

Also, to answer what may sound like another stupid question, I'm assuming once e2fsprogs and e2fsprogs-libs are emerged, I won't have to (nor should have to?) re-emerge any of the packages that were removed? :oops:

I remember from the coreutils disaster that one of the packages involved was there to replace one of the packages being removed and just wanted to know if this was the situation or not?

richard.scott · Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:10 pm Post subject:

both the e2fsprogs and e2fsprogs-libs packages replace the ss and com_err ones removed so there's nothing to re-install or re-emerge after.

It is just important, no its vital, that you "emerge -f" before you unmerge the old packages otherwise wget won't work and you can't download them.

Good luck :-)

Tuxenstein · Apprentice Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 155

Already did that, thanks!

Thanks as well for the clarification about the packages.

amasidlover · Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:32 am Post subject:

I just experienced a little excitement with this update on a significantly out of date machine - when I got to the last emerge of e2fspogs tar started segmentation faulting, thankfully I had another amd64 system to copy an up to date version of /bin/tar from. So be wary if updating an old machine...
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richard.scott · Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:51 am Post subject:

You don't need to keyword now that a more recent version of app-crypt/mit-krb5 is available.

The app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.6.3-r2 release was the first to use the new e2fsprogs-libs rather than the com_err/ss combo.