[gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

[gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

[Grant]

I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session.  I think it
was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this
nearly 4-year-old bug:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909

The solution is presented as:

qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf -  -F%F#s | xargs qfile

but I get:

qlist: invalid option -- 'l'
qlist: invalid option -- '['

Removing the -l fixes the first invalid option, but I don't know how
to fix the second.  Does anyone know how to rewrite this command so it
will work?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 18 January 2010 05:59:14 Grant wrote:
> I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session.  I think it
> was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this
> nearly 4-year-old bug:
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909
> 
> The solution is presented as:
> 
> qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf -  -F%F#s | xargs qfile
> 
> but I get:
> 
> qlist: invalid option -- 'l'
> qlist: invalid option -- '['
> 
> Removing the -l fixes the first invalid option, but I don't know how
> to fix the second.  Does anyone know how to rewrite this command so it
> will work?


I can't see how you can get those errors, unless you have a broken qlist that 
is outputing something dodgy from the "qlist -ICv"

If it persists, copy-paste your input and the output from your terminal into a 
mail. Or run

qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | less

and examine that closely for errors

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

[Grant]

>> I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session.  I think it
>> was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this
>> nearly 4-year-old bug:
>>
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909
>>
>> The solution is presented as:
>>
>> qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf -  -F%F#s | xargs qfile
>>
>> but I get:
>>
>> qlist: invalid option -- 'l'
>> qlist: invalid option -- '['
>>
>> Removing the -l fixes the first invalid option, but I don't know how
>> to fix the second.  Does anyone know how to rewrite this command so it
>> will work?
>
>
> I can't see how you can get those errors, unless you have a broken qlist that
> is outputing something dodgy from the "qlist -ICv"
>
> If it persists, copy-paste your input and the output from your terminal into a
> mail. Or run
>
> qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | less
>
> and examine that closely for errors

I was making a transcription error before, but after correcting it, it
still doesn't work:

# qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf -  -F%F#s | xargs qfile
Usage: qfile <opts> <filename> : list all pkgs owning files

Options: -[ef:m:oRx:vqChV]
  -e, --exact          * Exact match
  -f, --from     <arg> * Read arguments from file <arg> ("-" for stdin)
  -m, --max-args <arg> * Treat from file arguments by groups of <arg>
(defaults to 5000)
  -o, --orphans        * List orphan files
  -R, --root-prefix    * Assume arguments are already prefixed by $ROOT
  -x, --exclude  <arg> * Don't look in package <arg>
  -v, --verbose        * Make a lot of noise
  -q, --quiet          * Tighter output; suppress warnings
  -C, --nocolor        * Don't output color
  -h, --help           * Print this help and exit
  -V, --version        * Print version and exit

Does anyone know what might be wrong?

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

[Grant]

>>> I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session.  I think it
>>> was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this
>>> nearly 4-year-old bug:
>>>
>>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909
>>>
>>> The solution is presented as:
>>>
>>> qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf -  -F%F#s | xargs qfile
>>>
>>> but I get:
>>>
>>> qlist: invalid option -- 'l'
>>> qlist: invalid option -- '['
>>>
>>> Removing the -l fixes the first invalid option, but I don't know how
>>> to fix the second.  Does anyone know how to rewrite this command so it
>>> will work?
>>
>>
>> I can't see how you can get those errors, unless you have a broken qlist that
>> is outputing something dodgy from the "qlist -ICv"
>>
>> If it persists, copy-paste your input and the output from your terminal into a
>> mail. Or run
>>
>> qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | less
>>
>> and examine that closely for errors
>
> I was making a transcription error before, but after correcting it, it
> still doesn't work:
>
> # qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf -  -F%F#s | xargs qfile
> Usage: qfile <opts> <filename> : list all pkgs owning files
>
> Options: -[ef:m:oRx:vqChV]
>  -e, --exact          * Exact match
>  -f, --from     <arg> * Read arguments from file <arg> ("-" for stdin)
>  -m, --max-args <arg> * Treat from file arguments by groups of <arg>
> (defaults to 5000)
>  -o, --orphans        * List orphan files
>  -R, --root-prefix    * Assume arguments are already prefixed by $ROOT
>  -x, --exclude  <arg> * Don't look in package <arg>
>  -v, --verbose        * Make a lot of noise
>  -q, --quiet          * Tighter output; suppress warnings
>  -C, --nocolor        * Don't output color
>  -h, --help           * Print this help and exit
>  -V, --version        * Print version and exit
>
> Does anyone know what might be wrong?
>
> - Grant

I think the problem above is that -I isn't a current option of qfile,
but removing it produces the error I originally posted about:

qlist: invalid option -- '['

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 18 January 2010 17:12:41 Grant wrote:

> > # qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf -  -F%F#s | xargs qfile
> > Usage: qfile <opts> <filename> : list all pkgs owning files
> >
> > Options: -[ef:m:oRx:vqChV]
> >  -e, --exact          * Exact match
> >  -f, --from     <arg> * Read arguments from file <arg> ("-" for stdin)
> >  -m, --max-args <arg> * Treat from file arguments by groups of <arg>
> > (defaults to 5000)
> >  -o, --orphans        * List orphan files
> >  -R, --root-prefix    * Assume arguments are already prefixed by $ROOT
> >  -x, --exclude  <arg> * Don't look in package <arg>
> >  -v, --verbose        * Make a lot of noise
> >  -q, --quiet          * Tighter output; suppress warnings
> >  -C, --nocolor        * Don't output color
> >  -h, --help           * Print this help and exit
> >  -V, --version        * Print version and exit
> >
> > Does anyone know what might be wrong?
> >
> > - Grant
> 
> I think the problem above is that -I isn't a current option of qfile,
> but removing it produces the error I originally posted about:
> 
> qlist: invalid option -- '['
> 
> - Grant
 
It does look like your qlist is out of date and giving you a --help summary 
which the outer qlist tries to interpret, and fails.

If you can't update the package qlist comes from, you might get by with 
replacing the inner qlist with equery. It gives output like this:

$ equery --quiet list '*'                        
app-admin/apache-tools-2.2.14                                  
app-admin/apg-2.3.0b-r4                                        
app-admin/empower-9999                                         


which looks the same as the output from qlist -ICv:

$ qlist -ICv | head -n3
app-admin/apache-tools-2.2.14
app-admin/apg-2.3.0b-r4
app-admin/empower-9999

This requires gentoolkit-0.3* which is ~


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

[Arttu V.]

On 1/18/10, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session.  I think it
>>> was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this
>>> nearly 4-year-old bug:
>>>
>>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909
>>>
>>> The solution is presented as:
>>>
>>> qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf -  -F%F#s | xargs qfile
>>>
>>> but I get:
>>>
>>> qlist: invalid option -- 'l'
>>> qlist: invalid option -- '['
>>>
>>> Removing the -l fixes the first invalid option, but I don't know how
>>> to fix the second.  Does anyone know how to rewrite this command so it
>>> will work?
>>
>>
>> I can't see how you can get those errors, unless you have a broken qlist
>> that
>> is outputing something dodgy from the "qlist -ICv"
>>
>> If it persists, copy-paste your input and the output from your terminal
>> into a
>> mail. Or run
>>
>> qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | less
>>
>> and examine that closely for errors
>
> I was making a transcription error before, but after correcting it, it
> still doesn't work:
>
> # qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf -  -F%F#s | xargs qfile
> Usage: qfile <opts> <filename> : list all pkgs owning files
>
> Options: -[ef:m:oRx:vqChV]
>   -e, --exact          * Exact match
>   -f, --from     <arg> * Read arguments from file <arg> ("-" for stdin)
>   -m, --max-args <arg> * Treat from file arguments by groups of <arg>
> (defaults to 5000)
>   -o, --orphans        * List orphan files
>   -R, --root-prefix    * Assume arguments are already prefixed by $ROOT
>   -x, --exclude  <arg> * Don't look in package <arg>
>   -v, --verbose        * Make a lot of noise
>   -q, --quiet          * Tighter output; suppress warnings
>   -C, --nocolor        * Don't output color
>   -h, --help           * Print this help and exit
>   -V, --version        * Print version and exit
>
> Does anyone know what might be wrong?

Solar's one-liner is likely working perfectly here. The one-liner just
doesn't find any binaries with the ancient SSP symbol, and thus args
for qfile are empty -- leading into qfile printing its usage.

Everything seems to be just fine there, so we might need to back up to
the point where you decided that this bug was a match for your
problem. Did you get the same error? From which program exactly? Have
you installed binaries that are not in portage's installed files'
lists?

-- 
Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

[Grant]

>>>> I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session.  I think it
>>>> was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this
>>>> nearly 4-year-old bug:
>>>>
>>>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909
>>>>
>>>> The solution is presented as:
>>>>
>>>> qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf -  -F%F#s | xargs qfile
>>>>
>>>> but I get:
>>>>
>>>> qlist: invalid option -- 'l'
>>>> qlist: invalid option -- '['
>>>>
>>>> Removing the -l fixes the first invalid option, but I don't know how
>>>> to fix the second.  Does anyone know how to rewrite this command so it
>>>> will work?
>>>
>>>
>>> I can't see how you can get those errors, unless you have a broken qlist
>>> that
>>> is outputing something dodgy from the "qlist -ICv"
>>>
>>> If it persists, copy-paste your input and the output from your terminal
>>> into a
>>> mail. Or run
>>>
>>> qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | less
>>>
>>> and examine that closely for errors
>>
>> I was making a transcription error before, but after correcting it, it
>> still doesn't work:
>>
>> # qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf -  -F%F#s | xargs qfile
>> Usage: qfile <opts> <filename> : list all pkgs owning files
>>
>> Options: -[ef:m:oRx:vqChV]
>>   -e, --exact          * Exact match
>>   -f, --from     <arg> * Read arguments from file <arg> ("-" for stdin)
>>   -m, --max-args <arg> * Treat from file arguments by groups of <arg>
>> (defaults to 5000)
>>   -o, --orphans        * List orphan files
>>   -R, --root-prefix    * Assume arguments are already prefixed by $ROOT
>>   -x, --exclude  <arg> * Don't look in package <arg>
>>   -v, --verbose        * Make a lot of noise
>>   -q, --quiet          * Tighter output; suppress warnings
>>   -C, --nocolor        * Don't output color
>>   -h, --help           * Print this help and exit
>>   -V, --version        * Print version and exit
>>
>> Does anyone know what might be wrong?
>
> Solar's one-liner is likely working perfectly here. The one-liner just
> doesn't find any binaries with the ancient SSP symbol, and thus args
> for qfile are empty -- leading into qfile printing its usage.
>
> Everything seems to be just fine there, so we might need to back up to
> the point where you decided that this bug was a match for your
> problem. Did you get the same error? From which program exactly? Have
> you installed binaries that are not in portage's installed files'
> lists?

Thanks guys, I'm just going to emerge -e world and move on. :)

- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Can you rewrite this 1996 qfile command?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:34:04 +0200, Arttu V. wrote:

> Solar's one-liner is likely working perfectly here. The one-liner just
> doesn't find any binaries with the ancient SSP symbol, and thus args
> for qfile are empty -- leading into qfile printing its usage.

Does this mean using the --no-run-if-empty option with xargs will avoid
the problem?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Tagline stealing is the sincerest form of flattery.

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