From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I6xQN-0003Yn-0c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:41:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l66Ne2gO018086; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 23:40:02 GMT Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l66NZlPO013402 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 23:35:47 GMT Received: from xdsl-195-14-205-163.netcologne.de ([195.14.205.163] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I6xL1-0001Uf-56 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:35:47 +0200 Received: from weird.wonkology.org (weird.wonkology.org [::ffff:192.168.1.4]) by zone.wonkology.org with esmtp; Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:35:36 +0200 id 00030238.468ED1C8.00002B1C From: Alex Schuster Organization: Wonkology To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Portage curruptness problem Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 01:35:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707070135.36013.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: afc7464d-b325-40ce-b19b-bd6e42bd22e9 X-Archives-Hash: abd3acd3fe967ddefc2d9da88a85982b Hi there, I have a problem with portage being unable to unmerge some old packages. No idea what do do about this. I already remerged portage, tried emerge --emtadata and emerge --regen. Maybe someone of you knows what to do? I would not like to dig into the portage source code... root@zone:~ emerge -atv --clean >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: net-firewall/iptables selected: 1.2.7a-r3 protected: 1.3.5-r4 omitted: none >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Would you like to unmerge these packages? [Yes/No] >>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting... >>> (Control-C to abort)... >>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 >>> Unmerging net-firewall/iptables-1.2.7a-r3... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5547, in ? retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5528, in emerge_main mtimedb["ldpath"]): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3608, in unmerge vartree=vartree, ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3991, in unmerge ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6979, in unmerge self.settings, 0, 0, self.vartree.dbapi) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3013, in doebuild_environment mysettings.setcpv(mycpv, use_cache=use_cache, mydb=mydbapi) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1683, in setcpv slot, iuse = mydb.aux_get(self.mycpv, ["SLOT", "IUSE"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5353, in aux_get raise KeyError(mycpv) KeyError: 'sys-apps/iptables-1.2.7a-r3' root@zone:~ emerge -Ca \>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: app-misc/mc selected: 4.5.55-r5 protected: none omitted: 4.6.1-r3 >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Would you like to unmerge these packages? [Yes/No] >>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting... >>> (Control-C to abort)... >>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 >>> Unmerging app-misc/mc-4.5.55-r5... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5547, in ? retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5528, in emerge_main mtimedb["ldpath"]): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3608, in unmerge vartree=vartree, ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3991, in unmerge ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6979, in unmerge self.settings, 0, 0, self.vartree.dbapi) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3013, in doebuild_environment mysettings.setcpv(mycpv, use_cache=use_cache, mydb=mydbapi) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1683, in setcpv slot, iuse = mydb.aux_get(self.mycpv, ["SLOT", "IUSE"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5353, in aux_get raise KeyError(mycpv) KeyError: 'gnome-extra/mc-4.5.55-r5' Alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list