[gentoo-user] Portage dead -- don't know how to proceed

[gentoo-user] Portage dead -- don't know how to proceed

[George Garvey]

   /usr/portage itself is NFS mounted from a server and is fine.
However, emerge --metadata and emerge -av1 glibc both report problems
with some bdb stuff and doesn't work.
   This all happened after a failed glibc emerge. It detected that it
was nptlonly, said it was removing /lib/tls, does with a preinst
problem (on the rm as far as I can tell), and emerge has been hosed
ever since.

(After I rm -rf /var/cache/edb):
% emerge --metadata
>>> /var/cache/edb doesn't exist, creating it...
>>> /var/cache/edb/dep doesn't exist, creating it...


Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2002


.................... clipped ..........................

 ** Skipping packages. Run 'fixpackages' or set it in FEATURES to fix the
    tbz2's in the packages directory. Note: This can take a very long time.
skipping sync

>>> Updating Portage cache:
Failed cache update: app-accessibility/SphinxTrain-0.9.1-r1 (38, 'Function not implemented -- process-private: unable to initialize environment lock: Function not implemented')

Failed cache update: app-accessibility/at-poke-0.2.2 (38, 'Function not implemented -- process-private: unable to initialize environment lock: Function not implemented')


and so on and on and on



Here is emerge -av1 glibc:
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies

!!! Problem in sys-libs/glibc dependencies.
!!! (38, 'Function not implemented -- process-private: unable to initialize environment lock: Function not implemented') bsddb._db

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage dead -- don't know how to proceed

[George Garvey]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:30:10PM -0700, George Garvey wrote:
>    /usr/portage itself is NFS mounted from a server and is fine.
> However, emerge --metadata and emerge -av1 glibc both report problems
> with some bdb stuff and doesn't work.
>    This all happened after a failed glibc emerge. It detected that it
> was nptlonly, said it was removing /lib/tls, does with a preinst
> problem (on the rm as far as I can tell), and emerge has been hosed
> ever since.

   Never mind. I restored /lib/tls from backup, which emerge deleted,
rendering emerge unusable. It couldn't even install the newly compiled
glibc (which I have since deleted: yuck ;)
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