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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:23:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTineB4q7gyfkxZk99fioFnraRR1TEtXs_o1NzF=V@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimpTCiNRBkVjryFP48EEmA26cbEhtZJn3U7W-5k@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga
<hilco.wijbenga@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to unmerge some packages. They all fail like this:


>  * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed
>  * with exit value -1.
>  *
>  * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named
>  * 'arora-0.11.0.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/www-
>  * client/arora-0.11.0' directory. If necessary, manually remove the
>  * environment.bz2 file and/or the ebuild file located in that directory.
>  *
>  * Removal of the environment.bz2 file is preferred since it may allow the
>  * removal phases to execute successfully. The ebuild will be sourced and
>  * the eclasses from the current portage tree will be used when necessary.

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=211833



  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-13 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-13 19:05 [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails Hilco Wijbenga
2010-10-13 20:23 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2010-10-13 21:43   ` Hilco Wijbenga
2010-10-13 22:29 ` Dean Matzkov
2010-10-14  1:52   ` Hilco Wijbenga
2010-10-14  7:38     ` Dean Matzkov
2010-10-14 15:38       ` Hilco Wijbenga
2010-10-14 16:49       ` Paul Hartman
2010-10-14  8:36     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-10-14 15:39       ` Hilco Wijbenga
2010-10-13 22:40 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-10-14  0:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Willie Wong

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