"emerge linux26-headers" failure

Nairou · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 25

Alright, I'm in the process of following the Stage1 on Stage3 tutorial for a fresh Gentoo 2004.3 install. I get up to section 7 where I'm about to build the toolchain, and I get to here:

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Mayhem · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:14 am Post subject:

I have the same problem. Only for me, this didn't occur during initial setup but during an upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 headers.
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Guinpen · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 393

Now that's interesting! I was following that same guide a few hours ago, completed the whole toolchain build without problems, and later arn into different ones. I decided to start from scratch, and suddenly - the same problem happened to me. I think somebody out there must have changed something concerning the ebuild of linux-headers literally minutes ago...

Bob P · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:52 am Post subject:

well, its possible that something has changed in the ebuild, but before going down that path i'd like to see the contents of your emerge info. if you cannot cut and paste the screen output, you might want to try piping it to a text file on your floppy drive.
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Mayhem · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:19 am Post subject:

Behold my emerge info :p

olsberg · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 19 Location: Sweden

No succeed here. I'm updating linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 to linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 and the compile quits with the same error message as above.

I also tried emerge sync to reflect any possible changes, but that didn't solve the problem.

Anyone knows what is going on?

olsberg · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 19 Location: Sweden

FWIW:

Guinpen · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 393

I have no clue what is wrong with r2, but you can revert to the previous version by using

emerge =linux26-headers-2.6.8.1

It worked for me. I actually noticed there's r3, but it's only for AMD64.

EDIT: I'm a moron.

DntKnwHw · n00b Joined: 14 Aug 2003 Posts: 74 Location: Philippines

i have the same problem, regarding the r2 ebuild, tried the r3 but wont let me, so i tried the first ebuild which is 2.6.8.1 ebuild and works, viewing the changelog now seeing the difference between r2 and r1. hope somebody can get the r3 stable soon,

gdi2k · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:32 pm Post subject: Same problem

I'm having exactly the same problem as described above, trying to emerge -u world. It wanted to upgrade linux26-headers from 2.6.8.1-r1 to r2.

However, yesterday I updated another machine, and the upgrade to r2 went fine (the failed machine is an Athlon, the machine on which it succeeded is K8).

If you need any more info, let me know.

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Mayhem · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:03 pm Post subject:

Got stuff working using 2.6.8.1 headers. That's fine for me for now, but someone should probably file a bug report.
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lynxnyl · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:19 pm Post subject:

Same here. Same revert.

chip · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:18 pm Post subject: me too...

I get a different error.

HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
scripts/kconfig/conf -d arch/x86/Kconfig
can't find file arch/x86/Kconfig
make[1]: *** [defconfig] Error 1
make: *** [defconfig] Error 2

!!! ERROR: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 failed.

arch/x86 ???? is this right????

i have an arch/x86_64 dir, but I'm i386.

dang · Developer Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Posts: 29

Same error here. I've upgraded several systems with various processors to -r2 over the past few days, and today is the first error on this.

I've copied the old -r2 from another machine over the one from today, and it emerges fine. What's the deal with stable ebuilds changing? Is that supposed to happen without a version bump?

Nairou · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 25

And my emerge info as well, essentially the same as previous posts (the info reports my CPU as a AthlonXP, when it is really only an Athlon Tbird):

Bob P · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject:

Bob P · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 6:11 pm Post subject:

Gents -- i think that you're all falling into a trap that many new Gentoo users fall into -- it is NOT necessary to continually update toolkit components when you have a stable, functional toolkit! Once you've installed your linux headers, there's really no reason to abandon them just because another version has come out. If you are not having problems related to the revision, then do not upgrade!

You've all gained first-hand experience now: when a toolkit is stable, stick with the stable version. If you chase every incremental revision that comes along you will accomplish three things:

1. you will spend a lot of time in the upgrade cycle
2. you will risk borking your system whenever a bad ebuild comes out
3. the stability of your system may only have a lifespan that lasts as long as the period before you upgrade.

Experienced gentoo users don't upgrade as fervidly as n00bs do. IME your system will be much more reliable if you resist the temptation to have bragging rights about having the latest and greatest Gentoo setup on your block.
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Nairou · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 25

After another crash, I've restarted the installation from scratch today and again tried just letting it emerge linux26-headers on its own. Surprisingly, r2 is now working, it compiled fine, so I guess they fixed whatever the problem was.

chip · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 6:39 pm Post subject:

????
This thread was started by someone installing a new system....

when I do an emerge -p world I get:

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[ebuild U ] sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 [2.6.8.1-r1]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/procps-3.2.4 [3.2.3-r1]
[ebuild U ] net-analyzer/snort-2.3.0_rc2 [2.2.0]
[ebuild U ] sys-apps/ed-0.2-r6 [0.2-r4]

the linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 borks for me also, see above.

Bob P · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 6:44 pm Post subject:

Nairou · n00b Joined: 05 Jun 2004 Posts: 25

Bob P · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject: