[gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Dale]

Howdy,

I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following:


The following installed packages are not in the database:

sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev
--

Equery gives me this:

root@fireball / # equery list *static-dev*
 * Searching for *static-dev* ...
!!! No installed packages matching '*static-dev*'
root@fireball / # 



Other tools report this:



root@fireball / # emerge -s static-dev
 
[ Results for search key : static-dev ]
Searching...

*  sys-fs/static-dev
      Latest version available: 0.1
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 0 KiB
      Homepage:      https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
      Description:   A skeleton, statically managed /dev
      License:       GPL-2

[ Applications found : 1 ]

root@fireball / # eix static-dev
* sys-fs/static-dev
     Available versions:  0.1
     Homepage:            https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
     Description:         A skeleton, statically managed /dev

root@fireball / #



So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it.  What the heck is
this about?  Anyone else ever run into this?  Is there a way to "find"
it??  Can I remove it somehow??

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[wabenbau]

Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following:
> 
> 
> The following installed packages are not in the database:
> 
> sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev
> --
> 
> Equery gives me this:
> 
> root@fireball / # equery list *static-dev*
>  * Searching for *static-dev* ...
> !!! No installed packages matching '*static-dev*'
> root@fireball / # 
> 
> 
> 
> Other tools report this:
> 
> 
> 
> root@fireball / # emerge -s static-dev
>  
> [ Results for search key : static-dev ]
> Searching...
> 
> *  sys-fs/static-dev
>       Latest version available: 0.1
>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>       Size of files: 0 KiB
>       Homepage:      https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
>       Description:   A skeleton, statically managed /dev
>       License:       GPL-2
> 
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
> 
> root@fireball / # eix static-dev
> * sys-fs/static-dev
>      Available versions:  0.1
>      Homepage:            https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
>      Description:         A skeleton, statically managed /dev
> 
> root@fireball / #
> 
> 
> 
> So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it.  What the heck is
> this about?  Anyone else ever run into this?  Is there a way to "find"
> it??  Can I remove it somehow??
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 
> 

It's also installed on my system and probably it's a forgotten relict from 
ancient times (my last gentoo installation on this machine was in 2007).

To be honest, I never ran eix-test-obsolete. My system is running fine and
atm I don't have much time. So I will leave it as it is.

Maybe the static dev is useful in the case that udev refuses to work for 
any reason. :-)

--
Regards
wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[wabenbau]

<wabenbau@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following:
> > 
> > 
> > The following installed packages are not in the database:
> > 
> > sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev
> > --
> > 
> > Equery gives me this:
> > 
> > root@fireball / # equery list *static-dev*
> >  * Searching for *static-dev* ...
> > !!! No installed packages matching '*static-dev*'
> > root@fireball / # 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Other tools report this:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > root@fireball / # emerge -s static-dev
> >  
> > [ Results for search key : static-dev ]
> > Searching...
> > 
> > *  sys-fs/static-dev
> >       Latest version available: 0.1
> >       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
> >       Size of files: 0 KiB
> >       Homepage:      https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
> >       Description:   A skeleton, statically managed /dev
> >       License:       GPL-2
> > 
> > [ Applications found : 1 ]
> > 
> > root@fireball / # eix static-dev
> > * sys-fs/static-dev
> >      Available versions:  0.1
> >      Homepage:            https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
> >      Description:         A skeleton, statically managed /dev
> > 
> > root@fireball / #
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it.  What the heck
> > is this about?  Anyone else ever run into this?  Is there a way to
> > "find" it??  Can I remove it somehow??
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Dale
> > 
> > :-)  :-) 
> > 
> 
> It's also installed on my system and probably it's a forgotten relict
> from ancient times (my last gentoo installation on this machine was
> in 2007).
> 
> To be honest, I never ran eix-test-obsolete. My system is running
> fine and atm I don't have much time. So I will leave it as it is.
> 
> Maybe the static dev is useful in the case that udev refuses to work
> for any reason. :-)
> 
> --
> Regards
> wabe

Sorry, I forgot to mention that the package is shown up when I search
for it. I don't have any clue why this is not the case for your system.
 
$ eix static-dev
[I] sys-fs/static-dev
     Available versions:  0.1{tbz2}
     Installed versions:  0.1{tbz2}(01:46:27 08.03.2013)
     Homepage:            https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
     Description:         A skeleton, statically managed /dev


$ equery list *static-dev*
 * Searching for *static-dev* ...
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/static-dev-0.1:0


$ emerge -s static-dev
  
[ Results for search key : static-dev ]
Searching...

*  sys-fs/static-dev
      Latest version available: 0.1
      Latest version installed: 0.1
      Size of files: 0 KiB
      Homepage:      https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
      Description:   A skeleton, statically managed /dev
      License:       GPL-2

[ Applications found : 1 ]


--
Regards
wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Dale]

wabenbau@gmail.com wrote:
> <wabenbau@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following:
>>>
>>>
>>> The following installed packages are not in the database:
>>>
>>> sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev
>>> --
>>>
>>> Equery gives me this:
>>>
>>> root@fireball / # equery list *static-dev*
>>>  * Searching for *static-dev* ...
>>> !!! No installed packages matching '*static-dev*'
>>> root@fireball / # 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Other tools report this:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> root@fireball / # emerge -s static-dev
>>>  
>>> [ Results for search key : static-dev ]
>>> Searching...
>>>
>>> *  sys-fs/static-dev
>>>       Latest version available: 0.1
>>>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>>>       Size of files: 0 KiB
>>>       Homepage:      https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
>>>       Description:   A skeleton, statically managed /dev
>>>       License:       GPL-2
>>>
>>> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>>>
>>> root@fireball / # eix static-dev
>>> * sys-fs/static-dev
>>>      Available versions:  0.1
>>>      Homepage:            https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
>>>      Description:         A skeleton, statically managed /dev
>>>
>>> root@fireball / #
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it.  What the heck
>>> is this about?  Anyone else ever run into this?  Is there a way to
>>> "find" it??  Can I remove it somehow??
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> :-)  :-) 
>>>
>> It's also installed on my system and probably it's a forgotten relict
>> from ancient times (my last gentoo installation on this machine was
>> in 2007).
>>
>> To be honest, I never ran eix-test-obsolete. My system is running
>> fine and atm I don't have much time. So I will leave it as it is.
>>
>> Maybe the static dev is useful in the case that udev refuses to work
>> for any reason. :-)
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> wabe
> Sorry, I forgot to mention that the package is shown up when I search
> for it. I don't have any clue why this is not the case for your system.
>  
> $ eix static-dev
> [I] sys-fs/static-dev
>      Available versions:  0.1{tbz2}
>      Installed versions:  0.1{tbz2}(01:46:27 08.03.2013)
>      Homepage:            https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
>      Description:         A skeleton, statically managed /dev
>
>
> $ equery list *static-dev*
>  * Searching for *static-dev* ...
> [IP-] [  ] sys-fs/static-dev-0.1:0
>
>
> $ emerge -s static-dev
>   
> [ Results for search key : static-dev ]
> Searching...
>
> *  sys-fs/static-dev
>       Latest version available: 0.1
>       Latest version installed: 0.1
>       Size of files: 0 KiB
>       Homepage:      https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
>       Description:   A skeleton, statically managed /dev
>       License:       GPL-2
>
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>
>
> --
> Regards
> wabe
>
>


Yea, but what I want to get rid of is MERGING-static-dev not just
static-dev.  I just searched for static-dev to make sure it would find
anything that matches, since that all caps part looks fishy. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Dale]

wabenbau@gmail.com wrote:
> Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following:
>>
>>
>> The following installed packages are not in the database:
>>
>> sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev
>> --
>>
>> Equery gives me this:
>>
>> root@fireball / # equery list *static-dev*
>>  * Searching for *static-dev* ...
>> !!! No installed packages matching '*static-dev*'
>> root@fireball / # 
>>
>>
>>
>> Other tools report this:
>>
>>
>>
>> root@fireball / # emerge -s static-dev
>>  
>> [ Results for search key : static-dev ]
>> Searching...
>>
>> *  sys-fs/static-dev
>>       Latest version available: 0.1
>>       Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
>>       Size of files: 0 KiB
>>       Homepage:      https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
>>       Description:   A skeleton, statically managed /dev
>>       License:       GPL-2
>>
>> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>>
>> root@fireball / # eix static-dev
>> * sys-fs/static-dev
>>      Available versions:  0.1
>>      Homepage:            https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
>>      Description:         A skeleton, statically managed /dev
>>
>> root@fireball / #
>>
>>
>>
>> So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it.  What the heck is
>> this about?  Anyone else ever run into this?  Is there a way to "find"
>> it??  Can I remove it somehow??
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-) 
>>
> It's also installed on my system and probably it's a forgotten relict from 
> ancient times (my last gentoo installation on this machine was in 2007).
>
> To be honest, I never ran eix-test-obsolete. My system is running fine and
> atm I don't have much time. So I will leave it as it is.
>
> Maybe the static dev is useful in the case that udev refuses to work for 
> any reason. :-)
>
> --
> Regards
> wabe
>
>


What gets me, that MERGING is in all caps.  I don't recall ever seeing a
package name with caps like that.  To me, it looks like something was
being installed/upgraded and during the process some cruft got left
behind by portage.  Now I don't know that to be true but I'm grasping at
straws here.  I think I built this rig about 2011 or 2012.  I could dig
out the invoices to be sure.  Anyway, mines not as old a install as
yours but it has been around for a while. 

That has been there for a while and everything is working fine, even
rebooting.  Thing is, it bugs me that it is there and I don't know what
exactly it is or where it came from.  Also, that I can't figure out how
to clean it up either.  o_O  I mostly want to clean it up. 

Maybe someone else has ran into this and has a clue, or a 2 x 4.  ;-) 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:36:33 +0200, wabenbau@gmail.com wrote:

> Maybe the static dev is useful in the case that udev refuses to work
> for any reason. :-)

Probably not, especially if your kernel is built with
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y. I think the package was intended for building
initrds or embedded systems.

A solution, as you have already found, is to delete the directory
in /var/db/pkg/catgory. Wraeth is correct in that this comes from a
failed emerge, I've had it happen once or twice and it comes up on this
list from time to time. A cleaner solution may be to re-emerge the
package, then unmerge it if you don't need it.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded
for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand
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Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[wraeth]

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On 14/09/15 13:46, Dale wrote:
> So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it.  What the heck
> is this about?  Anyone else ever run into this?  Is there a way to
> "find" it??  Can I remove it somehow??

I'm not certain, but I believe the -MERGING-* files are left over from
an interrupted Install phase. Dr. Google suggests manually removing
[1,2] and while I did come across this many moons ago, I can't recall
how I dealt with it myself.

1:
http://negativesum.net/tech/linux/gentoo/log/fixing-portage-when-it-has-
wedged-a-package-as-merging
2: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-882687.html

- -- 
wraeth <wraeth@wraeth.id.au>
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Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[wabenbau]

wraeth <wraeth@wraeth.id.au> wrote:

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> On 14/09/15 13:46, Dale wrote:
> > So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it.  What the heck
> > is this about?  Anyone else ever run into this?  Is there a way to
> > "find" it??  Can I remove it somehow??
> 
> I'm not certain, but I believe the -MERGING-* files are left over from
> an interrupted Install phase. Dr. Google suggests manually removing
> [1,2] and while I did come across this many moons ago, I can't recall
> how I dealt with it myself.
> 
> 1:
> http://negativesum.net/tech/linux/gentoo/log/fixing-portage-when-it-has-
> wedged-a-package-as-merging
> 2: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-882687.html

@Dale

Have you tried to install it again? If that works, you can maybe remove
it afterwards.

--
Regards
wabe

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Dale]

wabenbau@gmail.com wrote:
> wraeth <wraeth@wraeth.id.au> wrote:
>
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>>
>> On 14/09/15 13:46, Dale wrote:
>>> So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it.  What the heck
>>> is this about?  Anyone else ever run into this?  Is there a way to
>>> "find" it??  Can I remove it somehow??
>> I'm not certain, but I believe the -MERGING-* files are left over from
>> an interrupted Install phase. Dr. Google suggests manually removing
>> [1,2] and while I did come across this many moons ago, I can't recall
>> how I dealt with it myself.
>>
>> 1:
>> http://negativesum.net/tech/linux/gentoo/log/fixing-portage-when-it-has-
>> wedged-a-package-as-merging
>> 2: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-882687.html
> @Dale
>
> Have you tried to install it again? If that works, you can maybe remove
> it afterwards.
>
> --
> Regards
> wabe
>
>


Well, I'd be chicken to have two packages dealing with /dev at the same
time, although portage says it is not a blocker. 

For future reference, I went and dug in this path:

/var/db/pkg/sys-fs

It turned out it was just a empty directory and deleting it cleared it
up.  Since it was empty, I guess that was safe enough.  If anything was
in it, then I'd be wanting to make sure it was safe to remove first. 

So, it's fixed.  I get a clean eix run and if its happy, I'm happy.  ;-) 

Thanks all.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[wraeth]

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On 14/09/15 15:34, Dale wrote:
> Well, I'd be chicken to have two packages dealing with /dev at the
> same time, although portage says it is not a blocker.
> 
> For future reference, I went and dug in this path:
> 
> /var/db/pkg/sys-fs
> 
> It turned out it was just a empty directory and deleting it cleared
> it up.  Since it was empty, I guess that was safe enough.  If
> anything was in it, then I'd be wanting to make sure it was safe to
> remove first.
> 
> So, it's fixed.  I get a clean eix run and if its happy, I'm happy.
> ;-)

Granted I don't know your setup, but having nothing installed from
sys-fs/* seems a little odd to me. For example, I have the following
packages installed from the sys-fs category:

eix -cI\#C sys-fs
sys-fs/btrfs-progs
sys-fs/cryptsetup
sys-fs/e2fsprogs
sys-fs/fuse
sys-fs/lvm2
sys-fs/ntfs3g
sys-fs/udev
sys-fs/udev-init-scripts
sys-fs/udisks

Accordingly, I have the following in /var/db/pkg/sys-fs/

ls -lhn /var/db/pkg/sys-fs
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 534 2015-09-14 09:51 btrfs-progs-4.2
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 520 2015-09-10 11:14 cryptsetup-1.6.8
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 494 2015-09-10 12:56 e2fsprogs-1.42.13
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 494 2015-09-10 18:29 fuse-2.9.4
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 526 2015-09-10 21:41 lvm2-2.02.116
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 520 2015-09-10 11:13 ntfs3g-2015.3.14
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 538 2015-09-10 22:21 udev-225
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 464 2015-09-10 19:02 udev-init-scripts-30
drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 512 2015-09-11 03:26 udisks-2.1.6

If you legitimately don't have anything installed from the sys-fs
category, then all should be safe I guess; but if you do, then other
mysteries may be afoot...

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Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday 14 September 2015 15:50:20 wraeth wrote:

> Granted I don't know your setup, but having nothing installed from
> sys-fs/* seems a little odd to me. For example, I have the following
> packages installed from the sys-fs category:
> 
> eix -cI\#C sys-fs
> sys-fs/btrfs-progs
> sys-fs/cryptsetup
> sys-fs/e2fsprogs
> sys-fs/fuse
> sys-fs/lvm2
> sys-fs/ntfs3g
> sys-fs/udev
> sys-fs/udev-init-scripts
> sys-fs/udisks
> 
> Accordingly, I have the following in /var/db/pkg/sys-fs/
> 
> ls -lhn /var/db/pkg/sys-fs
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 534 2015-09-14 09:51 btrfs-progs-4.2
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 520 2015-09-10 11:14 cryptsetup-1.6.8
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 494 2015-09-10 12:56 e2fsprogs-1.42.13
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 494 2015-09-10 18:29 fuse-2.9.4
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 526 2015-09-10 21:41 lvm2-2.02.116
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 520 2015-09-10 11:13 ntfs3g-2015.3.14
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 538 2015-09-10 22:21 udev-225
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 464 2015-09-10 19:02 udev-init-scripts-30
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 512 2015-09-11 03:26 udisks-2.1.6
> 
> If you legitimately don't have anything installed from the sys-fs
> category, then all should be safe I guess; but if you do, then other
> mysteries may be afoot...

I think Dale meant that the -MERGING- directory under /var/db/pkg/sys-fs was 
empty.

This happened to me once too, and I asked about it here. As soon as someone 
said it was a temporary directory used during the merging of a package, all 
became clear - it should have been removed at the end of the merge but for 
some reason it hadn't.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Dale]

wraeth wrote:
> On 14/09/15 15:34, Dale wrote:
> > Well, I'd be chicken to have two packages dealing with /dev at the
> > same time, although portage says it is not a blocker.
>
> > For future reference, I went and dug in this path:
>
> > /var/db/pkg/sys-fs
>
> > It turned out it was just a empty directory and deleting it cleared
> > it up.  Since it was empty, I guess that was safe enough.  If
> > anything was in it, then I'd be wanting to make sure it was safe to
> > remove first.
>
> > So, it's fixed.  I get a clean eix run and if its happy, I'm happy.
> > ;-)
>
> Granted I don't know your setup, but having nothing installed from
> sys-fs/* seems a little odd to me. For example, I have the following
> packages installed from the sys-fs category:
>
> eix -cI\#C sys-fs
> sys-fs/btrfs-progs
> sys-fs/cryptsetup
> sys-fs/e2fsprogs
> sys-fs/fuse
> sys-fs/lvm2
> sys-fs/ntfs3g
> sys-fs/udev
> sys-fs/udev-init-scripts
> sys-fs/udisks
>
> Accordingly, I have the following in /var/db/pkg/sys-fs/
>
> ls -lhn /var/db/pkg/sys-fs
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 534 2015-09-14 09:51 btrfs-progs-4.2
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 520 2015-09-10 11:14 cryptsetup-1.6.8
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 494 2015-09-10 12:56 e2fsprogs-1.42.13
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 494 2015-09-10 18:29 fuse-2.9.4
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 526 2015-09-10 21:41 lvm2-2.02.116
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 520 2015-09-10 11:13 ntfs3g-2015.3.14
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 538 2015-09-10 22:21 udev-225
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 464 2015-09-10 19:02 udev-init-scripts-30
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 512 2015-09-11 03:26 udisks-2.1.6
>
> If you legitimately don't have anything installed from the sys-fs
> category, then all should be safe I guess; but if you do, then other
> mysteries may be afoot...
>


I have this:

root@fireball / # equery list sys-fs/*
 * Searching for * in sys-fs ...
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/dfc-3.0.5-r1:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/dosfstools-3.0.28:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.13:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/eudev-3.1.2-r10:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/fuse-2.9.4:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.110:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/mdadm-3.3.1-r2:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/mtools-4.0.15:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/ntfs3g-2014.2.15-r1:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/reiser4progs-1.0.9:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.24:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/shake-0.999:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/treesize-0.54.1:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-27:0
[IP-] [  ] sys-fs/udisks-2.1.4:2
root@fireball / #  

I use eudev to manage /dev.  Since I know I already have software to
manage that, I didn't want to emerge that failed one since it could
clash with what I already have installed.  That said, portage didn't
show it as a blocker or anything.  I likely could have emerged it, then
unmerged it and not cause a problem.  I was just to chicken to do it is
all. 

In my search, I was searching for static-dev so it would only show
matches to that and not the other packages in sys-fs.  If I had searched
for sys-fs/* then it would have shown what was installed in that category. 

The biggest thing, I just didn't want to screw something up and google
wasn't returning anything when I searched.  No clue why it didn't tho. 
It's rare that google shows no matches.  It usually finds something even
if it is off the mark a bit. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[wraeth]

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On 09/14/2015 06:45 PM, Dale wrote:
> The biggest thing, I just didn't want to screw something up and
> google wasn't returning anything when I searched.  No clue why it
> didn't tho. It's rare that google shows no matches.  It usually
> finds something even if it is off the mark a bit.

Likely the minus in front of the MERGING - try searching

gentoo "-MERGING-"

Either way, glad it's sorted. :)
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Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Dale]

wraeth wrote:
> On 09/14/2015 06:45 PM, Dale wrote:
> > The biggest thing, I just didn't want to screw something up and
> > google wasn't returning anything when I searched.  No clue why it
> > didn't tho. It's rare that google shows no matches.  It usually
> > finds something even if it is off the mark a bit.
>
> Likely the minus in front of the MERGING - try searching
>
> gentoo "-MERGING-"
>
> Either way, glad it's sorted. :)


Thing is, it wasn't really installed.  It was just a fluke with
portage.  In one of the links posted it explained why that part in caps
was there.  Basically, there is no package by that name.  It is just the
way portage does things during the build/install phase. 

Yea, it's fixed now.  It seems this happens on occasion with different
packages.  I guess we need to make a note of this, just in case.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Dale]

wraeth wrote:
> On 14/09/15 13:46, Dale wrote:
> > So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it.  What the heck
> > is this about?  Anyone else ever run into this?  Is there a way to
> > "find" it??  Can I remove it somehow??
>
> I'm not certain, but I believe the -MERGING-* files are left over from
> an interrupted Install phase. Dr. Google suggests manually removing
> [1,2] and while I did come across this many moons ago, I can't recall
> how I dealt with it myself.
>
> 1:
> http://negativesum.net/tech/linux/gentoo/log/fixing-portage-when-it-has-
> wedged-a-package-as-merging
> 2: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-882687.html
>


Something broke in quoting again.  Stinking software I guess. 

This is along the lines of what I was thinking.  I just don't see how it
could have happened tho.  I have a UPS on my rig and I'd never shutdown
if there was a emerge process running.  Then again, maybe something else
broke and stopped the emerge process somehow. 

I also need to fix google too.  It didn't find anything when I searched
which also made me curious about what the heck this is. 

Going to go see if I can track this turkey down. 

Thanks much.  At least your google search worked.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Marc Joliet]

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On Sunday 13 September 2015 22:46:01 Dale wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following:
>
>
>The following installed packages are not in the database:
>
>sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev
[...]

Just for the record, but I think emaint (part of portage) should be capable of 
fixing this automatically (specifically, it's "merges" command).  It can do a 
couple more things, so check it out anyway.  (Also, per the news item "New 
portage plug-in sync system" from 2015-02-02, "emaint sync" is going to become 
the preferred way of syncing the portage tree and overlays.)

HTH
-- 
Marc Joliet
--
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Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Dale]

Marc Joliet wrote:
> On Sunday 13 September 2015 22:46:01 Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following:
>>
>>
>> The following installed packages are not in the database:
>>
>> sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev
> [...]
>
> Just for the record, but I think emaint (part of portage) should be capable of 
> fixing this automatically (specifically, it's "merges" command).  It can do a 
> couple more things, so check it out anyway.  (Also, per the news item "New 
> portage plug-in sync system" from 2015-02-02, "emaint sync" is going to become 
> the preferred way of syncing the portage tree and overlays.)
>
> HTH


Based on what I read on one of the links someone else provided, that
could be what failed.  From what I get about how this works.  Portage
compiles the stuff and then puts it in that directory to be merged onto
the main file system.  Once that is done, it should delete that
directory but for some reason, it doesn't on rare occasions. When it
gets left, eix-test-obsolete catches it and then confuses the user. 

If it were more consistent, I'd think a bug report would be in order but
since we can't reproduce this thing on a regular basis, I think it would
be pointless. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday 14 September 2015 11:28:36 Marc Joliet wrote:

> Just for the record, but I think emaint (part of portage) should be capable
> of fixing this automatically (specifically, it's "merges" command).  It can
> do a couple more things, so check it out anyway.  (Also, per the news item
> "New portage plug-in sync system" from 2015-02-02, "emaint sync" is going
> to become the preferred way of syncing the portage tree and overlays.)

Thanks for the reminder, Marc. I'd forgotten about that news item.

When I ran "emaint all" just now I got "has outdated metadata" against five KDE 
packages. Does anyone here know what that implies? Google didn't help.

-- 
Rgds
Peter

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[james]

Peter Humphrey <peter <at> prh.myzen.co.uk> writes:


> > do a couple more things, so check it out anyway.  (Also, per the news item
> > "New portage plug-in sync system" from 2015-02-02, "emaint sync" is going
> > to become the preferred way of syncing the portage tree and overlays.)

> Thanks for the reminder, Marc. I'd forgotten about that news item.

> When I ran "emaint all" just now I got "has outdated metadata" against  
> five  KDE packages. Does anyone here know what that implies? Google 
> didn't help.


'eix-test-obsolete', mentioned earlier is a great tool, part of eix, 
to use to list all sorts of items that need scrutiny.

Granted you should not just blindly follow the advice of the items
any given tool identifies as perfect. But these sort
of tools are great to generate a list of things to look
at with scrutiny.

Currently, I run 'eix-remote' update to update the overlays,
so does 'emaint all' properly update the overlay contents like
'eix-remote update'; I have never dug into these news updating 
caveats since we migrated to git....?



hth,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:56:25 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:

> When I ran "emaint all" just now I got "has outdated metadata" against
> five KDE packages. Does anyone here know what that implies? Google
> didn't help.

It's not a real problem, but emaint has a fix mode, see the man page.


-- 
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Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday 14 September 2015 21:41:54 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:56:25 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > When I ran "emaint all" just now I got "has outdated metadata" against
> > five KDE packages. Does anyone here know what that implies? Google
> > didn't help.
> 
> It's not a real problem, but emaint has a fix mode, see the man page.

Actually, the man page doesn't mention -f; you have to run emaint --help to 
find it. This is the first such case I've come across.

Now that I've run emaint -f movebin and emaint -f moveinst, eix-test-obsolete 
takes a fraction of the time it used to. I'm now trying to decide whether to 
be suspicious or relieved.  ;)

-- 
Rgds
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[wraeth]

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> Actually, the man page doesn't mention -f; you have to run emaint
> --help to find it. This is the first such case I've come across.

Sounds bug(zilla)-worthy ;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Neil Bothwick]

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On 15 September 2015 09:50:08 BST, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Monday 14 September 2015 21:41:54 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:56:25 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > When I ran "emaint all" just now I got "has outdated metadata"
> against
> > > five KDE packages. Does anyone here know what that implies? Google
> > > didn't help.
> > 
> > It's not a real problem, but emaint has a fix mode, see the man
> page.
> 
> Actually, the man page doesn't mention -f; you have to run emaint
> --help to 
> find it. This is the first such case I've come across.
> 
> Now that I've run emaint -f movebin and emaint -f moveinst,
> eix-test-obsolete 
> takes a fraction of the time it used to. I'm now trying to decide
> whether to 
> be suspicious or relieved.  ;)
> 
> -- 
> Rgds
> Peter

It does here, under default options. 
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Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 15 September 2015 10:30:39 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On 15 September 2015 09:50:08 BST, Peter Humphrey 
<peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Monday 14 September 2015 21:41:54 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:56:25 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > When I ran "emaint all" just now I got "has outdated metadata"
> > against
> > > > five KDE packages. Does anyone here know what that implies? Google
> > > > didn't help.
> > > 
> > > It's not a real problem, but emaint has a fix mode, see the man
> > page.
> > Actually, the man page doesn't mention -f; you have to run emaint
> > --help to
> > find it. This is the first such case I've come across.

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> It does here, under default options.

Ah, I see it now. I was reading it the wrong way.

-- 
Rgds
Peter
-- 
Rgds
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Dale]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 14 September 2015 11:28:36 Marc Joliet wrote:
>
>> Just for the record, but I think emaint (part of portage) should be capable
>> of fixing this automatically (specifically, it's "merges" command).  It can
>> do a couple more things, so check it out anyway.  (Also, per the news item
>> "New portage plug-in sync system" from 2015-02-02, "emaint sync" is going
>> to become the preferred way of syncing the portage tree and overlays.)
> Thanks for the reminder, Marc. I'd forgotten about that news item.
>
> When I ran "emaint all" just now I got "has outdated metadata" against five KDE 
> packages. Does anyone here know what that implies? Google didn't help.
>


I got one of those too.


root@fireball / # emaint all
Emaint: check binhost      100%
[============================================>]
Emaint: check cleanconfmem 100%
[============================================>]
Emaint: check cleanresume  100%
[============================================>]

resume list 'resume_backup' contains 814 packages



PORT_LOGDIR_CLEAN command returned None
See the make.conf(5) man page for PORT_LOGDIR_CLEAN usage instructions.


Emaint: check merges       100%
[============================================>]
Emaint: check movebin      100%
[============================================>]

'kde-base/kdelibs-4.14.11' has outdated metadata


Emaint: check moveinst     100%
[============================================>]

'kde-base/kdelibs-4.14.11' has outdated metadata


Emaint: check world        100%
[============================================>]
root@fireball / # 


Still not quite sure exactly what this does tho.  :/

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 15 September 2015 04:05:16 Dale wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Monday 14 September 2015 11:28:36 Marc Joliet wrote:
> >> Just for the record, but I think emaint (part of portage) should be
> >> capable
> >> of fixing this automatically (specifically, it's "merges" command).  It
> >> can
> >> do a couple more things, so check it out anyway.  (Also, per the news
> >> item
> >> "New portage plug-in sync system" from 2015-02-02, "emaint sync" is going
> >> to become the preferred way of syncing the portage tree and overlays.)
> > 
> > Thanks for the reminder, Marc. I'd forgotten about that news item.
> > 
> > When I ran "emaint all" just now I got "has outdated metadata" against
> > five KDE packages. Does anyone here know what that implies? Google didn't
> > help.
> I got one of those too.
> 
> root@fireball / # emaint all
--->8
> Emaint: check movebin      100%
> [============================================>]
> 
> 'kde-base/kdelibs-4.14.11' has outdated metadata
> 
> Emaint: check moveinst     100%
> [============================================>]
> 
> 'kde-base/kdelibs-4.14.11' has outdated metadata
> 
> [============================================>]

Yes, that's one of the five I got. I can't tell you the other four now because 
they've scrolled off.

> Still not quite sure exactly what this does tho.  :/

Nor I. Still, it doesn't seem to be anything to worry about.

-- 
Rgds
Peter