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 1Kuv4E-0002dr-UG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:21:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 527DBE031A; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.242]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A547E031A for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so2914766rvf.46 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:21:28 -0700 (PDT) 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=jq4DvBUUgFXZnfdmcqr2FLCciIroIWfPD70jO/FSEHk=; b=xpDTDJESpYMdyibieutSMSpSUvGdZ4CqpPaYae+eR2rKiS1unpquUZumZ+39UQ//LL rNdbHWLiQfP/Mcz9h/ByJ270p5KIG2uHv2/hyHXCuxKsyYxJ/Mfkicr9fZGkgX7NRk5X y6Jm6NdjEPOmnyhF38MuTQNp91x2Qf5DdNncA= 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=WVLeGbLNiEu2VPrG6rlX2IJCPvVLObHXrPp2x10i+ir0zQ+bIxgZLbxZ8HQATCbTxO E2/wrrSylyUerkrwQp6NRigDNCVDr00H8jLhmq6/mNjTh4Puc7QE/SABPpGIfzuxIFdR tWTeSzOEin8+bY5Gfce7q4B3HUh2MwRPHZRUo= Received: by 10.141.128.19 with SMTP id f19mr4395473rvn.45.1225225288443; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.194.20 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9acccfe50810281321l372f48b0s4498e0ef8563f363@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:21:28 -0700 From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync? In-Reply-To: <49074B7C.3080205@googlemail.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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <02e501c9391f$cf54cb60$a500a8c0@quan> <20081028172120.3b5084e2@rabbit.robbieab.com> <49074B7C.3080205@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 624efbcf-e706-4557-a7aa-f5c7f5ab3614 X-Archives-Hash: f76b020bb85a62a8a879c09c8b714ee3 On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Robert Bridge schrieb am 28.10.2008 18:21: >> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:08:32 -0400 >> "James Homuth" wrote: >> >>> During an update attempt this afternoon, these little surprises were >>> waiting for me. I took a look at the archives, and naturally, google, >>> but all I found were lots of the same error, and no information on >>> it/what's broken. Anyone else having this particular problem? The >>> block errors are below. >>> >>> [blocks B ] sys-libs/ss (is blocking >>> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2) >>> >>> [blocks B ] >> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2) >>> >>> [blocks B ] sys-libs/com_err (is blocking >>> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2) >>> >>> [blocks B ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs (is blocking >>> sys-libs/ss-1.40.9, >>> sys-libs/com_err-1.40.9) >>> >>> This was during an emerge --update world. >>> >>> >> >> emerge -C e2fsprogs, ss, com_err && emerge -1 e2fsprogs >> >> e2fsprogs is being restructured, which is causing the problem. > > If you go the route of uninstalling things first, make sure that you > have the sources prepared as wget might not work for some use flag > combinations when you remove e2fsprogs, ss, com_err in advance. Sadly, I did not read this until these were all unmerged, and wget is truly broken. Happily, I do run with buildpkg on all the time, but an this the first time I've really needed them. Getting back to a running system was pretty easy. However, this does not really solve the problem. What's a safe way to do this emerge? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD