From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P697G-0005wj-Uc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:44:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 697BBE094A; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D6CE094A for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:43:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so1328104ewy.40 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:43:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ft9kxKCNCZCP1+JF/OOze8d3wVClh+3GGDDqD6GcIEo=; b=uImveN40SCHfQ2OlUGwS8PEnKYseIIZgPJnZYzG0PWYwX2i384Vvu53oQfqBm1JdPe SxUQSw2+qxl/HWlJA12EsHaXYhVnCxATG2M14RnfkfZP4focuJHfx9UCq8wY1I7MS349 TgOWaV1jpIsZwTNCuXJTqJnmqlDgcqP8j/Jig= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=xckwd36387g4UpSrXtxzY/h0Cc/cSqpbXFkAds0T3c28h0371q1z6w4ejb7UVogqMa Rfk6dFQo8UsAUqYhGgUnIXXENl53QCF3vBj0aYLesKCz+P+Ak/1JBqvYb3wfEAZ/4Iug 3IBEKsyctlNLRDszvDp3UNpgfE4s9JJDwyLvY= 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 Received: by 10.213.2.209 with SMTP id 17mr438850ebk.37.1287006199400; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.45.72 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:43:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:43:19 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails From: Hilco Wijbenga To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e01548b6-e95d-47aa-89f8-29f2c87decca X-Archives-Hash: de947203efda1add17a88b3b3f2c5fb0 On 13 October 2010 13:23, Paul Hartman wrot= e: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to unmerge some packages. They all fail like this: > > >> =C2=A0* The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has f= ailed >> =C2=A0* with exit value -1. >> =C2=A0* >> =C2=A0* The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named >> =C2=A0* 'arora-0.11.0.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/www- >> =C2=A0* client/arora-0.11.0' directory. If necessary, manually remove th= e >> =C2=A0* environment.bz2 file and/or the ebuild file located in that dire= ctory. >> =C2=A0* >> =C2=A0* Removal of the environment.bz2 file is preferred since it may al= low the >> =C2=A0* removal phases to execute successfully. The ebuild will be sourc= ed and >> =C2=A0* the eclasses from the current portage tree will be used when nec= essary. > > As the error suggests, remove that file > (/var/db/pkg/www-client/arora-0.11.0/environment.bz2) and then try > again, it should hopefully work then. > > See this bug for more info: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D211833 Nope, removing environment.bz2 doesn't make any difference. Also, note that it's not just this package. I have the same problem for at least 2 others. It seems a pandemic. :-)