[solved] sysvinit-2.88-r3 is blocking util-linux-2.20

mbar · Veteran Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 1990 Location: Poland

Also helped me. Marking solved.

claque2000 · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 10 Location: France

psheldon · n00b Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 53 Location: South Africa

This gave me a headache! :-)

What worked for me was remove " util-linux ~x86 " from package.keywords and I had another one in package.accept_keywords
Thanks.

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lubo777 · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 6:16 pm Post subject:

thank you very much!

This saved me a lot of time after 1-2 days experiments how to fix this on a few different gentoo servers ....
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paul138 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 370 Location: Ottawa, ON

Confirmed. Thanks for the quick fix since there still seems to be an issue in portage with this combo of updates.
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affirmedatheist · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:03 am Post subject:

Confirmed here also. Thank god for that.
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marziods · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:53 am Post subject:

Confirmed... after few days of trouble ... tnx!

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SnackMasterX · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 231

I had this issue with my system and was looking all over the gentoo forums for a solution until I stumbled upon this, merged both packages at the same time and it worked flawlessly! Thanks much!

dave_deu · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 6:27 pm Post subject:

I've tried "emerge --update sys-apps/sysvinit sys-apps/util-linux" but it didn't change anything. I've also tried booting into a Live CD and unmerging the packages and re-merging them but that didn't work either.

Here is the output of my emerge:

dave_deu · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:06 pm Post subject:

I tried the ~x86 emerge idea but that had no effect on my emerge --update world.

arcwick08 · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2012 Posts: 2

I had the same issue when doing an emerge -v system on a fresh build. Yes, running ~x86 system-wide.
My solution;

Fetch sources for both packages:

dave_deu · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:11 pm Post subject:

After I do emerge -v util-linux it says:

arcwick08 · n00b Joined: 24 Jan 2012 Posts: 2

Something else you have merged must be requiring a version of util-linux still marked unstable... any system packages manually unmasked?
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mcclung · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2005 Posts: 22

In my case, the update of dracut from =sys-kernel/dracut-014-r1 to =sys-kernel/dracut-014-r2 seems to be the problem. So I'm going back (downgrading) to =sys-kernel/dracut-013-r2. Unfortunately for me, I have a feeling the 014 fixed a problem for me, but I can not remember what it was, and I didn't make any notes for myself on why I unmasked it.
I guess I'll find out next time I make an initial ram disk without genkernel.

dave_deu · Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:22 pm Post subject:

Ah okay, I've removed pam_mount from /etc/portage/package.keywords and things seem to be moving along a bit, however I still have 200 packages to emerge and it fails to emerge the stable version of pam_mount because of a bug in it! (It's this one in case anyone cares: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652762)

I've masked that version now and am trying another update.

Thanks.

jagland · n00b Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 8

I was trying to install a bunch of packages on a new install (but based on the world file from another box) this included dracut-016.

It asked me to add the following entries to package.keywords

dave_deu · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2012 1:28 pm Post subject:

That's good to know. Shame sysvinit has to installed as unstable. I'm currently stuck with a repeatedly failing emerge of pam_mount but that's another story...

Sharp_Rulez · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 43

Just FYI:

got the same problem on a fresh gentoo install (while doing an emerge system) . Did the following:
emerge --nodeps =sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r3
followed by
emerge --nodeps =sys-apps/util-linux-2.20.1-r2

then my emerge system went through

jserink · Veteran Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 1008

Hey Sharp_Rulz:

Followed your advice:
emerge --nodeps =sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r3
followed by
emerge --nodeps =sys-apps/util-linux-2.20.1-r1

but kept my util-linux to 2.20.1-r1 which is unmasked in the tree and it all worked!

Thanx for that.

Cheers,
john

wlchase · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:47 pm Post subject:

arcwick08

Worked for me! Would you mind explaining the logic to semi-clueless me?

Thanks!
Bill

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newtonian · Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2012 3:34 pm Post subject: sysvinit util-linux blocker fix