Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine having troubles syncing

[deface <deface@uberpenguin.net>]

try emerge --sync; emerge --update --newuse --deep world; emerge -- 
depclean


On Jan 29, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:

> I have a machine that hasn't been updated in quite awhile I turned it
> on today with the intention of possibly using it to replace an older
> MYthTV server that is going bad. First step would be eix-sync which is
> failing with only a message
>
> problems running time emerge --sync
>
> Not much help there.
>
> Then I tried emerge -pvDuN world to see what state I left things after
> the last sync and get lots of messages like these:
>
> !!! A file is not listed in the Manifest:
> '/usr/portage/dev-libs/openssl/openssl-0.9.8e-r2.ebuild'
>
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "dev-libs/openssl" have been  
> masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete  
> your request:
> - dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8e-r1 (masked by: corruption)
> - dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8e-r3 (masked by: corruption)
>
> Clearly the machine is unhappy about something.
>
> emerge -pv portage does this:
>
> <SNIP>
> \!!! A file is not listed in the Manifest:
> '/usr/portage/app-arch/rpm2targz/rpm2targz-9.0-r4.ebuild'
> ... done!
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.3.9 [2.1.2.12] USE="-build -doc
> -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 377 kB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 377 kB
> Sector9 ~ #
>
> I tried emerge -pv system and get a failure at the end that says:
>
> (dependency required by "dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6" [ebuild])
>
> !!! Problem resolving dependencies for dev-lang/python
> !!! Depgraph creation failed.
>
>
> I'm not at all clear how to proceed as I've never had a Gentoo machine
> do anything like this.
>
> Any ideas much appreciated. I've been googling but haven't found a
> great answer yet.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Mark
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