[gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says "expr" binary missing

[gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says "expr" binary missing

[Denis]

I was emerging coreutils to update portage, and it failed with the following:

>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 to /

--- SNIP md5 messages ---

/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1: /bin/expr: No such file or directory
 * Your expr binary appears to be broken, please fix it.
 * For more info, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/123342

!!! ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 failed.
!!! Function pkg_setup, Line 43, Exitcode 0
!!! your expr is broke

It appears that I have no previous version of coreutils showing on my
system...  Anyone know of a way to fix this?

Denis
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says "expr" binary missing

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Thursday 01 March 2007 18:35:54 Denis wrote:
> I was emerging coreutils to update portage, and it failed with the 
following:
> >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 to /
>
> --- SNIP md5 messages ---
>
> /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1: /bin/expr: No such file or
> directory * Your expr binary appears to be broken, please fix it.
>  * For more info, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/123342
>
> !!! ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 failed.
> !!! Function pkg_setup, Line 43, Exitcode 0
> !!! your expr is broke

You really need to tell us more about your system. What did you do preceding 
this?

> It appears that I have no previous version of coreutils showing on my
> system...

What is that statement based on? How did you check it? What's the output of 
`emerge -pv coreutils`? If you have either gentoolkit or portageutils 
installed (or am able to install it) please show the output of either `equery 
check coreutils` or `qcheck coreutils`. `emerge --info` would be nice too..

> Anyone know of a way to fix this?

An easy solution might be to emerge busybox if possible.. Otherwise we really 
need to know more..

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says "expr" binary missing

[Denis]

> You really need to tell us more about your system. What did you do preceding
> this?

emerge --info gives the following:

Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4, gcc-3.3.5,
glibc-2.3.1-r2,glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.8
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 0.2.7, 1.2.11
dev-lang/python:     2.2.2, 2.3.4-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present]
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12, 1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.13.90.0.18, 2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.1, 1.3.8-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.4.1-r10, 1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.19
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="no"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"

SNIP a bunch of "use" flags...

I know, I haven't updated for a while.  I was trying to update
Portage, and coreutils was listed as the necessary package to emerge
first.

> What's the output of `emerge -pv coreutils`?

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.4  -acl +nls (-selinux) -static 0 kB

> please show the output of either `equery check coreutils` or `qcheck coreutils`.

BLANK.  I ran it, and it doesn't give any output at all.

Denis



> On Thursday 01 March 2007 18:35:54 Denis wrote:
> > I was emerging coreutils to update portage, and it failed with the
> following:
> > >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 to /
> >
> > --- SNIP md5 messages ---
> >
> > /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1: /bin/expr: No such file or
> > directory * Your expr binary appears to be broken, please fix it.
> >  * For more info, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/123342
> >
> > !!! ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 failed.
> > !!! Function pkg_setup, Line 43, Exitcode 0
> > !!! your expr is broke
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says "expr" binary missing

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Friday 02 March 2007 01:40:10 Denis wrote:
> > You really need to tell us more about your system. What did you do
> > preceding this?
>
> emerge --info gives the following:
>
> Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4, gcc-3.3.5,
> glibc-2.3.1-r2,glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686)
> =================================================================
> System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.20GHz
[SNIP]

Wow... ;)

> I know, I haven't updated for a while.  I was trying to update
> Portage, and coreutils was listed as the necessary package to emerge
> first.
>
> > What's the output of `emerge -pv coreutils`?
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.4  -acl +nls (-selinux) -static 0 kB
>
> > please show the output of either `equery check coreutils` or `qcheck
> > coreutils`.
>
> BLANK.  I ran it, and it doesn't give any output at all.

Ouch! Did you attempt to emerge busybox? If that doesn't work my best 
suggestion at this point and with the information available is to grab the 
coreutils-6.4 binpkg at [1], put it in /usr/portage/packages/All/ and emerge 
it with --usebinpkgonly...

As a side note given the age of your portage you may need information 
available at [2] when you've gotten past this problem...

[1] http://tinderbox.x86.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/x86/All/
[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/common-problems.xml

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says "expr" binary missing

[Denis]

Many thanks - it worked...  the Portage is now current, which I cannot
say for the rest of my system...  ugh.  I think eventually I'll just
have to make an archive of my home directory and clean-slate install
the latest Gentoo distro.  There are too many dangling ends from back
when - would probably take less time than trying to transition X11 to
Xorg, gcc3.3.5 to gcc4, etc etc...
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