From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0KVP-0000fV-9T for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE2D6E04D8; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84CBFE04D8 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 29so645158wff.10 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:31:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=6ucrzWcYvKL+/0Wv9wHuR1MZQm0fprN4F8eAwLco2g8=; b=feZPo8FjsOyxmB/puvjHfEtYamANTBmO0AfbPl3AK6IOWwNkzQdTycoTGwjiTfB4dw 1obpf+gK+3d2pfDz8+ECRGL3M4IO+xisQDemFlpm8Y2WtG7yDmAnoyJFj4X2bIREgjaJ d6Cr/39KzPzK3sMvT1U2D0ylxmf4/H0V2fjak= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=xK5SuOC1mv69JFs59i/VSDc5BX0lclOsJPLAL8nmUOQcCWBiLfoiScyMpSHhkTIllP ZWeZIjb4wkY90omSoeUcigXUfwzSIdKiPk3nMfAsyKnzl3r8E+tD6NEv4YjHpYeiMPrn +nYV5hAKivBXYNpSETb0Mt4bb1lYmf1Nr46uc= Received: by 10.142.245.6 with SMTP id s6mr3589687wfh.34.1226514711497; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:31:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.143.19.19 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:31:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <919d41310811121031u16484e1dn99a7888a18d749d7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:51 +0000 From: "Dan Wallis" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem In-Reply-To: <87od0komh9.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <87od0komh9.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Archives-Salt: b47178c2-b038-4c9b-a71b-007f996ee774 X-Archives-Hash: 6d2324bc018277ad2a5bec5be4ae3159 On 12/11/2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated. And I haven't > followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little > baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or > something causing 16 different blocking problems. > > The output of emerge -vuDNp shows a message saying I might be able > solve some of the problem with masking but that appears to be only one > small part of the blocking. > > I've included below some long output from: > > emerge -vuDNpt world (to show the interdependence's) > > (sorry but this is some 600 lines long) > > Possibly some other flags to emerge would be more helpful. If so > please tell me and I'll post that as well. > > This output seems a little overwhelming but I hope someone who is used > to deciphering such output will take time to look at it and maybe see > how I can get started straightening it out. > > First a short look at the blocking lines: > > ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== > > grep blocking outfile > > [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc" is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) > [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga" is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) > [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-imstt ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-imstt" is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) > [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix" is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) > [blocks b ] sys-libs/ss ("sys-libs/ss" is blocking sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3) > [blocks b ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs ("sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs" is blocking sys-libs/com_err-1.40.11, sys-libs/ss-1.40.11) > [blocks b ] sys-libs/com_err ("sys-libs/com_err" is blocking sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3) > [blocks b ] [blocks b ] [blocks b ] [blocks B ] [blocks B ] >=sys-fs/udev-126 (">=sys-fs/udev-126" is blocking sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6) > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* ("=kde-base/kdebase-3.5*" is blocking kde-base/kdeprint-3.5.10) > [blocks B ] kde-base/kdeprint:3.5 ("kde-base/kdeprint:3.5" is blocking kde-base/kdebase-3.5.9-r4) > [blocks B ] <=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4 ("<=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4" is blocking x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-assistant-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-xmlpatterns-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-svg-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-test-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-core-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.4.2) > [blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase ("kde-base/kdebase" is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r2) The blocks regarding sys-fs/e2fsprogs, sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs, sys-libs/ss and sys-libs/com_err were discussed recently on this list. Basically you need to: emerge -f e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs emerge -C com_err ss e2fsprogs emerge -1 e2fsprogs I'm not sure about the others, but fixing these should get you closer to an up-to-date system. :) Dan