!!! CATEGORY info missing from info chunk, aborting..

Jonin · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Durham, NC

I am getting the "!!! CATEGORY info missing from info chunk, aborting.." error message.

I saw this post but,
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=109078&highlight=category+info+missing+info+chunk+aborting

I still can't emerge from the files I coppied to my hard drive? I do not have a "category" dir in the $portage/packages dir? Is there any more detailed docs on this issue? Or does anyone have a more in depth solution?

My settings are:

in make.conf (these are not exact synatax. I am not in front of my box and can't remember exact syntax)

portage dir = /usr/portage
package dir = /usr/portage/packages/All

When I run # $PKGDIR.. I get the correct path (/usr/portage/packages/All

I do not have a /usr/portage/packages/category/ directory, Nor do I have symlinks from that dir.

Please help.

Jonin

hielvc · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 4:27 am Post subject:

This is what Genone meant

Jonin · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Durham, NC

So did you have to manually create all of those categories? How do yo know what categories link to what packages in $PKGDIR/All? I am still missing the fundamental logic behind the categories/links/emerge. So once I copy all the packages from CD2 will I have to create x1000 links to those files in the All directory?

hielvc · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 5:04 pm Post subject:

Ok you seem to doing a GRP install. So no you shouldnt need to make those categories. To use the packages you need to

Jonin · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Durham, NC

hielvc,

Now we are on to something. Since I was having problems I emerge sync'd. That would explain my problem. I will start over to scratch and load the snapshot again. I will let you know how it goes. Thanks for all your help. Do you know when the most recent Live CD's were released? I downloaded the ones I am currently using about 2 seeks ago. Has a newer version than that come been released?

Thanks,

Jonin

hielvc · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject:

Looks like the latest GRP cds date from 9-??-03 depending on which platform your building. Its still the fastest way to gentoo up and going. After your built you can allways "emerge world -UD".

hielvc

Jonin · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Durham, NC

One more question, should I download the latest snapshot from the mirror? Or, is that the same as emerge syncing again?

Thanks

hielvc · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 7:04 pm Post subject:

No use whats on the cd. After you have installed everything from the GRP and gone through the full install Doc then you "emerge sync" and emerge what ever else you need. Once you sync your portage tree is going to be 4 months out of date. Alot of the programs will have been updated. Xfree hasnt changed if memory serves but portage, baselayout, coreutils, gcc, glibc, gettext etc have diffently been upgraded. What I do is make backups of any files Ive edited in "/etc" particularly make.conf and then "emerge system -uD" . That way you're upgraded to the latest greatest stage3 and is 1/2 to 1/3 of the list "emerge world" will give you. Thiis of course depends on how fast your system is. On my Athlon-xp 2000 gcc is about 1 to 1 1/2 hours to build and glibc 1 hour. Unless youve got a AMD64 its going to take awhile and I perfer doing it in chunks.

hielvc
[EDIT] REMOVE -U from emerge as it will break your system.

masseya · Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2004 8:14 pm Post subject:

There's apparently a lot of talk about this. Here's all the links as reported to me. This thread is the official thread for this issue as it seems to have the most information, but if you are having issues with this I strongly recommend browsing the others.

Jonin · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Durham, NC

When you follow the install directions you 1. install snapshot 2. copy over distfiles 3. copy over packages.

step 1. When you install snapshot (tar ??? snapshot) it creates the /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage directory. This directory does have all of the "app-admin, app-arch, app-cdr..." directories. Are these the "categories"?

step 2. Just follow intall guide directions (no problem)

step 3. It asks you to create "/mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages/All" (ie. this dir. does not exist up until this point) and then copy over all your packages to the "All" directory.

So, the quesiton is, do I need to copy over all the "app-admin, app-arch, etc." into the /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages/All" dir., "..../portage/packages" dir, or leave them in the ".../portage" dir.? Or, none of the above and I am completely off track?

Thanks,

Jonin

hielvc · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 12:29 am Post subject:

You shouldnt need the "CATEGORIES", they are created when you "emerge -b or --buildpackage or when you add "buildpkg" to FEATURES in make.conf .

hielvc

Jonin · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Durham, NC

When I run "emerge -K system" I get a long list of:

sys-devel/filename
sys-libs/filename
net-misc/filename
etc.
etc.

these are required by --usepkgonly --Terminating

If I just run "emerge system" it tries to go out and download the files(which I would expect). Something still is not right?

hielvc · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 3:19 am Post subject:

Sorry it took so long, I was looking at the install docs and they leave a lot to be desired for GRP(as in confuseing). No you dont "emerge -k system" here. What you need to do is install " gnome and/or kde and/or open-office. Ex " emerge -k kde gnome ". Thid wasnt exactly correct but its ok.
I think your useing the install docs on the cd so you skip Code listing 12.1 and go to step 14.

hielvc

Jonin · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Durham, NC

I am not that far yet. I am trying to do a stage 2 build from the CD. I havn't even compiled my kernel yet. In the install doc. right after you configure USE settings, you go to building the system w/ emerge system. I seem to be having problems at this point.

hielvc · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 4:49 am Post subject:

1. GRP is designed to work with a stage 3 install. It might work with stage1 or stage 2. If you want to find out do

Jonin · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Durham, NC

I started a stage 3 this morning. I will keep you posted. It seems like a stage 2 should work. Anyway, maybe in future documentation they can break out the GRP instructions entirely?

Jonin

masseya · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject:

Jonin · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Durham, NC

Ok, Final update. I now have things working. "emerge -K/k" only seems to work if you are doing a Stage 3 install. It seems like it should work w/ a stage 2 but it does not. I was able to do the full install without going out to the internet to download files. This is a much faster install. I would especially like to thank "heilvc" for all the help.

npalmer76 · n00b Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 26

I was having a similar problem. The fix that worked for me was to remove the /var/db/<catageory>/<package> directory as well as the /var/tmp/portage/<package> directory. Only removal of both of these worked correctly.

If this helps others please report it to bugzilla bug 29044.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29044

-Nick
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oojah · n00b Joined: 14 May 2003 Posts: 10

Make sure that you have specifed PKGDIR in make.conf and also specified PORTDIR. PKGDIR relies on PORTDIR being explicitly set so you will still get errors if it isn't set but PKGDIR is set.

meowsqueak · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2004 2:02 am Post subject:

Pauoloelcuator · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 19

hello all,

I found this while googleling....

nullmodem · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2004 Posts: 39

I fixed fixed mine, thought I'd share

In the /etc/make.conf this line:
FEATURES="sandbox ccache distcc userpriv usersandbox notitles noclean noauto cvs keeptemp keepwork"

I removed: buildpkg

I was then able to emerge packages alsa, kdemultimedia, alsa-oss without the error "category missing chunk aborting" although alsa would not have that error.

I also went to control center, sound and media, hardware and changed it to "advanced linux architecture"(or whatever)which finally decided to show itself.

Also you need to set amixer, I used kmix in the kde menu enabled the speaker and pcm, turned the volume up and set the option in configuration to "remember settings" or something.

I dont know if it mattered but I emerged arts one more time before all this.

I can now startx with sound.
I still cannot browse my cdrom(mounted) with xmms and load a mp3s, although I can copy them to a directory on the hdrive and play them from there.

Onward with other issues................