emerge -C linux-headers fails (solved)

[Randy R]

The error I see when the process aborts is:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2801, in ?
    if 1==unmerge(myaction, myfiles):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2168, in unmerge
    retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,mysettings,unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"])
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2790, in unmerge
    mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld,cleanup=1)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6073, in unmerge
    if (pkgfiles[obj][0] not in ("dir","fif","dev","sym")) and (lmtime != pkgfiles[obj][1]):
KeyError: '.'

I have tried emerging the package again (it is successfull) but when portage attempts to unmerge the previous instance, it fails. I have spent a significant ammount of time on this. I can emerge a newer version and then unmerge that, but i can not get rid of linux-headers-2.4.21-r1.

I would even be willing to do a manual removal of the package ( if I knew how)

Any suggestions would be welcome.

[Randy R]

anybody?

[Randy R]

Still have the problem

No ideas? None?

[Randy R]

Still broken. I will be reinstalling. Probably going to try ubuntu and see how that goes. This installation is my original and was originally done over two years ago. Its been fun, but I can't fix this.

[iTux]

Hi,

Not being to unmerge is not that big a problem... I suspect you have other reasons for switching operating systems as it is much easier to fix your unmerge problem than to install another OS... In case you are still using Gentoo or if others encounter similar problems:

qpkg -l -nc package_name
gives you the list of files.

1) Remove all of them.
Ex:
for f in `qpkg -l -nc package_name` ; do
rm $f
done
2) Unmerge the package
3) Re-emerge the newer version of the package again.


iTux

[Randy R]

Thanks for your response. I tried what you suggested but it didn't work. I get the same error. Emerge -C removes all the packeges normally (it seems) but looks like there may be some other file that is causing a problem (installed package db or somthing?)

Anyway, thanks for your response. I just didn't think that this would be that hard a problem to resolve. I just can't figure out how to fix it.

As far as changing distros, I like being able to fix the errors that come up without having to reinstall(forums is normally great. almost never have to submit a question). If I do need to reinstall, then it might be easier to do a distro that that dosen't need to be compiled.

[Randy R]

The way to fix a system with a package that will not be removed by

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emerge -C some-package

is to do a manual uninstall as previously shown above, then go into

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/var/db/pkg/

and delete the entry for the package that will not uninstall and problem resolved.