I unmerged python... ensuing problems....

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blunted · Post by **blunted** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 9:04 pm

I wasn't able to use fetchmailconf after emergeing fetchmail so I added tcltk to USE as suggested in a post I read and unmerged then emerged again. That didn't solve the problem. I got an error saying my python probably didn't support tk so being retarded I unmerged python expecting the new USE variable tcltk to fix the possible python problem. Now emerge doesn't work. Help.

creep root # emerge
/usr/bin/env: python2.2: No such file or directory

EDIT: Moved from Other Things Gentoo. Don't want this one to get pruned in case we turn that feature on. Probably ought to make this a FAQ. -- pjp

delta407 · Post by **delta407** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 9:35 pm

"emerge" and most of Portage is written in Python. Unmerging Python was a Bad Thing (TM).

delta407 · Post by **delta407** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 9:42 pm

You might be able to reinstall Python using this:

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# cd
# tar xzf /usr/portage/distfiles/Python-2.2.1.tgz
# cd Python-2.2.1
# ./configure --with-fpectl --infodir=/usr/share/info/ --mandir=/usr/share/man
# make
# make install prefix=/usr
# rm /usr/bin/python 2>/dev/null
# ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python

Hopefully this will be enough of Python to let you "emerge python" again.

blunted · Post by **blunted** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 10:06 pm

Thank you kindly for your lightning fast response which solved my problem! Next time you're in Winnipeg you have a place to stay =P

daemonb · Post by **daemonb** » Sun Nov 10, 2002 11:18 pm

thank you very much, i had the same problem. Thats really sh*t. But that was really stupid of me to think there is no risk

But now python is emerging an I hope it will rule

thing_from_space · Post by **thing_from_space** » Thu Jan 09, 2003 2:02 am

I tried downgrading python to make another non-gentoo package work and really messed up emerge. I had thought about manually rebuilding it, but wasn't sure if it would work and decided against it. After searching frantically in the Gentoo forums I came across this topic. Maybe it should be made sticky.

<big sigh of relief>

Slayer_X · Post by **Slayer_X** » Sat Feb 15, 2003 3:45 am

Hi, my portage system dont work, I guess Python is the problem

I reinstall manually Python and the problem persist.

I read the README.RESCUE and untar the correct file and the problema persist

When I make a

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emerge -p world

I got

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

Oops: 0000
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c015ffe8>]    Tainted: P
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax: 00000000   ebx: 00001000   ecx: ddef0000   edx: ddef52a0
esi: ddef5c00   edi: de3d8f40   ebp: ddfc9dc0   esp: dde55d98
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process install (pid: 1035, stackpage=dde55000)
Stack: ddfc9dc0 bf46999c dde55eb8 ddf11d9c 00000008 c2522dd4 ddef5c00 c0137ea2
       c0139776 ddef5c00 00000000 bf46999c 00000010 ddef5c00 00000000 00000246
       dde54000 00001000 00000010 c23c9600 00000054 00000008 ddf11d9c ddfc9dc0
Call Trace:    [<c0137ea2>] [<c0139776>] [<c01699be>] [<c0165063>] [<c0165aa4>]
  [<c015db6a>] [<c015db8c>] [<c016544b>] [<c015e0a4>] [<c015e032>] [<c015e043>]
  [<c015e12c>] [<c0160ad4>] [<c013f780>] [<c01412a7>] [<c0141496>] [<c013f754>]
  [<c0133dd3>] [<c010878f>]

Code: 8b 50 04 89 54 24 34 8b 48 08 89 4c 24 30 83 c4 14 8b 41 04
 <6>note: install[1035] exited with preempt_count 1
Calculating world dependencies   portage: aux_get(): (1) couldn't open cache entry for sys-apps/man-pages-1.54
(likely caused by syntax error or corruption in the sys-apps/man-pages-1.54 ebuild.)

some aditional info from my system

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inferno root # uname -r
2.4.19-gentoo-r9
inferno root # gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2

Any help is welcome :)

yumbrad · Post by **yumbrad** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 7:45 pm

I couldn't configure python, I was apparently missing g++ ... I did salvage the system though, by copying /usr/bin/python2.2 and the entire /usr/lib/python2.2 directory from a redhat8.0 system, then emerging python. Now i'm going to try and figure out how to get rid of the cruft redhat had in /usr/lib/python2.2.

Isaiah · Post by **Isaiah** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 4:55 am

delta407 wrote:You might be able to reinstall Python using this:
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# cd
# tar xzf /usr/portage/distfiles/Python-2.2.1.tgz
# cd Python-2.2.1
# ./configure --with-fpectl --infodir=/usr/share/info/ --mandir=/usr/share/man
# make
# make install prefix=/usr
# rm /usr/bin/python 2>/dev/null
# ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python
Hopefully this will be enough of Python to let you "emerge python" again.

Don't know how mine got borked, but this worked for me with one minor alteration (2.2.2 instead of 2.2.1) - thanks delta407

Clete2 · Post by **Clete2** » Thu Dec 04, 2003 4:06 pm

Thanks for this post... I'm building now... I had built before without the configure options and such... Iwas trying to get python 2.3 working by unmerging python then building it manually... Stupid me

Szplug · Post by **Szplug** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:01 pm

I foolishly did 'emerge unmerge python' thinking to re-emerge it, and here's what worked for me:

download & install python from www.python.org

Emerge seemed to want specifically, /usr/bin/python which wasn't there, so I just re-pointed it to the newly installed one,

# cd /usr/bin
# ln -s /usr/local/bin/python .

Then just read & follow the instructions from here:
/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE

paulbiz · Post by **paulbiz** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 2:38 am

I thought I had to re-emerge python, it was unable to run due to the wrong libstdc++.so.6 after GCC upgrade from 3.4.3 to 3.4.4. I couldn't recompile because g++ wouldn't run, either.

Finally, I realized the gcc 3.4.3 directories weren't on my disk anymore at all! I just copied the 3.4.3 directory from /usr/lib/<whatever>/3.4.3 on the Gentoo install liveCD into the same on my hard disk, ran ldconfig and immediately everything worked again (and I am immediately following it with revdep-rebuild

).

bombcar · Post by **bombcar** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:33 pm

I wanted to remove the dependency that python had on X, so I changed my use flags but it put a little green * next to X when running emerge -pv python.

So I unmerged python.

Hopefully the stuff above will make it happy again.

eXess · Post by **eXess** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:40 am

worked for me too, although with modifications :

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# cd
# tar xzf /usr/portage/distfiles/Python-2.4.2.tgz 
# cd Python-2.2.1
# ./configure --with-fpectl --infodir=/usr/share/info/ --mandir=/usr/share/man
# make
# make install prefix=/usr
# rm /usr/bin/python 2>/dev/null
# ln -s /usr/bin/python2.4 /usr/bin/python2
# ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python

That is : Python 2.4.2 instead of 2.2.1 (that is not quite serious) and also linking to python2.4, not to python2 (I have made two symlinks, just in case someone would like to see both "python2" and "python" in the dir...)

Anyway, after banging my head 666 times on the wall and writing "I am a stupid bastard" 3583 times with my own blood, I have promised not to unmerge Python ever again and praise the Lord that you are all so valuable helpers. delta407 : you've got a place to stay in Belgium too. Be warned! You could travel round the world with this !

gasdia73 · Post by **gasdia73** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:24 pm

by the way, delta407 you have a place to stay in Italy too

thanx alot

Joe1314 · Post by **Joe1314** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:49 pm

and Scotland - this should be made a sticky.

Thanks!

Thavian · Post by **Thavian** » Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:02 am

*slaps self really hard*

Rightfully so stupidity was made painful as it should be in my case.

Thanks a ton!

Also add Seattle, Washington to your growing list.

wbrokow1 · Post by **wbrokow1** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:12 am

I stupidly removed python because I was following the gcc upgrade and made a mistake.
How can I fix this screw-up? emerge won't run now.
Thanks for any guidance

desultory · Post by **desultory** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:24 am

Merged the above post.

Another option which is now available would be to retrieve the package for the appropriate architecture from http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/, unpack it over the existing system (there will be error messages which can safely be ignored), emerge python and proceed with your prior task.

acoul · Post by **acoul** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:39 am

I had problems upgrading python to my system. I followed this guide:

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emerge -C python
tar xzf /extra/download/Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2 
cd Python-2.4.4
./configure --with-fpectl --infodir=/usr/share/info/ --mandir=/usr/share/man
make
make install prefix=/usr
rm /usr/bin/python 2>/dev/null
ln -s /usr/bin/python2.4 /usr/bin/python2
ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python

and then issued:

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emerge python

I still get the exact same error I had in the first place:

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running build_scripts
creating build/scripts-2.4
copying and adjusting /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/work/Python-2.4.4/Tools/scripts/pydoc -> build/scripts-2.4
copying and adjusting /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/work/Python-2.4.4/Tools/scripts/idle -> build/scripts-2.4
copying and adjusting /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/work/Python-2.4.4/Lib/smtpd.py -> build/scripts-2.4
changing mode of build/scripts-2.4/pydoc from 644 to 755
changing mode of build/scripts-2.4/idle from 644 to 755
changing mode of build/scripts-2.4/smtpd.py from 644 to 755
>>> Source compiled.
>>> Test phase [not enabled]: dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4

>>> Install python-2.4.4-r4 into /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/image/ category dev-lang
_tkinter _tkinter
Creating directory /usr/bin
Creating directory /usr/lib
/usr/bin/install -c python /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/image//usr/bin/python2.4
if test -f libpython2.4.so; then \
                if test ".so" = .dll; then \
                        /usr/bin/install -c -m 555 libpython2.4.so /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/image//usr/bin; \
                else \
                        /usr/bin/install -c -m 555 libpython2.4.so /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/image//usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0; \
                        if test libpython2.4.so != libpython2.4.so.1.0; then \
                                (cd /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/image//usr/lib; ln -sf libpython2.4.so.1.0 libpython2.4.so); \
                        fi \
                fi; \
        else    true; \
        fi
Creating directory /usr/lib/python2.4
Creating directory /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-old
Creating directory /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk
Creating directory /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages
Creating directory /usr/lib/python2.4/test
Creating directory /usr/lib/python2.4/test/output
Creating directory /usr/lib/python2.4/test/decimaltestdata

.
.
.

Compiling /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/image//usr/lib/python2.4/xml/sax/handler.py ...
Compiling /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/image//usr/lib/python2.4/xml/sax/saxutils.py ...
Compiling /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/image//usr/lib/python2.4/xml/sax/xmlreader.py ...
Compiling /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/image//usr/lib/python2.4/xmllib.py ...
Compiling /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/image//usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py ...
Compiling /extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/image//usr/lib/python2.4/zipfile.py ...
make: *** [libinstall] Error 1
 *
 * ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *   ebuild.sh, line 1654:   Called dyn_install
 *   ebuild.sh, line 1089:   Called qa_call 'src_install'
 *   ebuild.sh, line 44:   Called src_install
 *   python-2.4.4-r4.ebuild, line 174:   Called die
 *
 * (no error message)
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/temp/build.log'.
 *

 * Messages for package dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4:

 *
 * ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *   ebuild.sh, line 1654:   Called dyn_install
 *   ebuild.sh, line 1089:   Called qa_call 'src_install'
 *   ebuild.sh, line 44:   Called src_install
 *   python-2.4.4-r4.ebuild, line 174:   Called die
 *
 * (no error message)
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/extra/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4/temp/build.log'.

emerge --info:

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Portage 2.1.3.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:30:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2 -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -mfpmath=sse -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdisabled-optimization -fprefetch-loop-arrays"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2 -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -mfpmath=sse -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -Wdisabled-optimization -fprefetch-loop-arrays"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en el"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kerberos ldap mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en el" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

BServiss · Post by **BServiss** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:01 pm

I'm having the same problem with Python. It had to start with that expat madness

I would give you an emerge --info but it's borked too.

The long and short of it - I followed the instructions here, issuing Make -i to get around the libinstall error, and python is giving this response:

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'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Sep 19 2007, 18:36:06)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

I've also tried the binary packages with the same result.

Before I reinstall the whole stupid, bloody mess, can someone help?

BServiss · Post by **BServiss** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:13 am

Whew - Somehow $PYTHONHOME got changed to the python site packages directory! Fixing this lets me emerge again.

But Python still bombs at zipfile.py - or what's directly after it. Any hints here? Any at all?

Another post suggests that updating something else (they weren't specific) fixes the Python issue.

acoul · Post by **acoul** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:10 am

this is an old problem that shows every now and then ... I am trying all different sort of things but so far I have no success ...
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-embe ... 01386.html

acoul · Post by **acoul** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:59 pm

I was able to solve my problem:

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export REAL_CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.6
source /etc/profile
emerge python
gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2
source /etc/profile
emerge python

System is quite happy now, everything looks good !!

BServiss · Post by **BServiss** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:38 am

Python was the problem - it quit at compiling zipfile.py - or what was after it:

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Listing /usr/local/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2 ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2/CDROM.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2/DLFCN.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2/IN.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/plat-linux2/TYPES.py ...
Listing /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Canvas.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Dialog.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/FileDialog.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/FixTk.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/ScrolledText.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/SimpleDialog.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tix.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkconstants.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkdnd.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/tkColorChooser.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/tkCommonDialog.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/tkFileDialog.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/tkFont.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/tkMessageBox.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/tkSimpleDialog.py ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/turtle.py ...
Listing /usr/local/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload ...
Listing /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages ...
Compiling /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ez_setup.py ...           [ ok ]

The only thing I can suggest is to keep updating and revdep'ing till you can get python to compile.

I unmerged python... ensuing problems....

I unmerged python... ensuing problems....

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