[gentoo-user] gnome fails to install with error 2

[gentoo-user] gnome fails to install with error 2

[David Mehler]

Hello,
I'm running gentoo and am trying to install gnome 2.26 i believe is
the version. I get considerably far in to the process then the install
dies with an error 2 at
gnome-extras/gnome-user-docs-gnome-accessibility guide and as i say
error 2. I'd like to correct this, suggestions appreciated.
Thanks.
Dave.

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome fails to install with error 2

[walt]

On 03/23/2010 02:13 PM, David Mehler wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm running gentoo and am trying to install gnome 2.26 i believe is
> the version. I get considerably far in to the process then the install
> dies with an error 2 at
> gnome-extras/gnome-user-docs-gnome-accessibility guide and as i say
> error 2. I'd like to correct this, suggestions appreciated.

Maybe someone can tell us what error 2 means, I don't know.  In general,
when any package won't finish building the most import info is in the
build.log, in this particular instance, here:
/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/gnome-user-docs-2.26.2/temp/build.log

Look through that build.log for words like 'error' 'not found' 'denied'
and any others that imply failure,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome fails to install with error 2

[David Mehler]

Hello,
I don't know what error 2 means and the build.log wasn't of much help.
What was of greater help was this link:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/278292

I didn't get the error specifically about libxml2 as this seems to
indicate. I tried the fix however.
Once I install libxml2 gnome completed installation. I think the 2.6
dependency list might need updating.
Thanks.
Dave.



On 3/23/10, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/23/2010 02:13 PM, David Mehler wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm running gentoo and am trying to install gnome 2.26 i believe is
>> the version. I get considerably far in to the process then the install
>> dies with an error 2 at
>> gnome-extras/gnome-user-docs-gnome-accessibility guide and as i say
>> error 2. I'd like to correct this, suggestions appreciated.
>
> Maybe someone can tell us what error 2 means, I don't know.  In general,
> when any package won't finish building the most import info is in the
> build.log, in this particular instance, here:
> /var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/gnome-user-docs-2.26.2/temp/build.log
>
> Look through that build.log for words like 'error' 'not found' 'denied'
> and any others that imply failure,
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome fails to install with error 2

[Arttu V.]

On 3/24/10, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I don't know what error 2 means and the build.log wasn't of much help.

I don't know gnome packages, but I'd guess finding error 1 would be in
order. Somewhere, maybe far, above.

> What was of greater help was this link:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/278292
>
> I didn't get the error specifically about libxml2 as this seems to
> indicate. I tried the fix however.
> Once I install libxml2 gnome completed installation. I think the 2.6
> dependency list might need updating.
> Thanks.
> Dave.

Are you sure you haven't missed running python-updater and/or revdep-rebuild?

My bets on that bug report (as well as your system, given the very
limited amount of info so far) would be on "probably a broken system".

For example, the bug reporter is freely mixing and matching ancient
stable stage3 packages with bleeding-edge testing stuff from ~arch.
And all this without -uDN options for emerge (nor revdep-rebuilds), so
he really gets a fully mixed-up bag of untested combinations.

And then it all backfired on him ... probably his ancient python from
the stage3 tarball got bumped to a later version anyway, and thus all
python-related packages would sorely need re-emerging, i.e., running
python-updater or a manual emerge ...

What we'd need is some actual log outputs revealing what is going on.
Maybe it is a bug. Maybe it is just a broken system. Maybe it is both?

-- 
Arttu V.