[SOLVED] Problem World Update ends in a slot conflict

[ROGA]

Hi,

I've had this problem before and wanted solve it with this thread but this time without success

What I did:

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emerge -avuDN @world

and the output is showing here

Can someone help me please?

[fedeliallalinea]

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[blocks B      ] sys-libs/glibc[crypt(+)] ("sys-libs/glibc[crypt(+)]" is blocking sys-libs/libxcrypt-4.4.36)
[blocks B      ] <sys-libs/glibc-2.37-r3 ("<sys-libs/glibc-2.37-r3" is blocking sys-apps/locale-gen-2.23-r1)

You have a very old glibc, try to update that reading the related news item.

[grknight]

This looks as if the failed perl upgrade resolution is leading to a blocker situation on the virtual/libcrypt. Try additional backtracking (e.g. --backtrack=100) or use perl-cleaner.

[ROGA]

@fedeliallalinea: Thank you for help. I tried your recommendation to update glibc but I didn't understand exactly the migration process in this post.

What I did:

in the folder /etc/portage/package.use I created a file with this content

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sys-libs/glibc -crypt
sys-libs/libxcrypt -system split-usr

then in file /etc/portage/package.unmask I wrote

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~virtual/libcrypt-2

than I tried to update

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emerge -av glibc

afterwards, emerge gave me the following output

what do I make wrong here?

[ROGA]

@grknight: Thank you for help.

I tried both, backtrack and perl-cleaner without success.

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emerge --backtrack=500 -avuDN @world

gave me the following output

and

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perl-cleaner --all

gave me this output

for me, this is cryptical, so I do not understand.

What is wrong in my system?

[rfx]

try less. you have a summary of 478 packages to merge. when you cut this down with backtrack to 500, still every package tryes to merge. do

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emerge --backtrack=50 -avuDN @world

or less

[grknight]

try less. you have a summary of 478 packages to merge. when you cut this down with backtrack to 500, still every package tryes to merge. do

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emerge --backtrack=50 -avuDN @world

or less

That is not what backtracking is concerned with. The backtrack number is how deep in the tree emerge should look for a resolution. The default fits many cases. More is better when there is an issue.

[grknight]

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perl-cleaner --all

gave me this output

Try updating python first with emerge --oneshot dev-lang/python, then retry with perl-cleaner --reallyall

Nothing is wrong with the system except waiting for 2+ years to update.

Edit: For python to work, it might need to be more.. emerge --oneshot dev-lang/python sys-apps/portage dev-util/itstool dev-util/meson-format-array app-portage/gemato dev-libs/libxml2 $(qlist -I dev-python/) (and possibly more that may appear)

[ROGA]

I tried it, but emerge was still not satisfied.

emerge --oneshot dev-lang/python return this

I have no glue how I can solve this problem. Is it better to make a fresh install of gentoo?

[Hu]

Reinstalling the system is excessive for a minor conflict. Your output shows that you are holding on to old Python packages that need an old python-exec. This is probably because you waited too long to update. Per grknight's latest post, you need to include more than just Python in the command, so that it can update markupsafe (and possibly others) in a single step. Please try the command that grknight suggested.

[ROGA]

@grknight and @Hu thank's for helping.

I tried what grknight suggested but at first I had no success. Always came the same error that several packages had a slot-conflict. Then I first tried to uninstall and then reinstall the packages in question with the slot-conflict. Afterwards I was able to reinstall all the packages you suggested. Finally I was able to do an emerge -avuDN world with success.

Thank you very,very, very much!!!!

I saved a lot of time with your help.