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[76.23.130.96]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id t75sm3328163qke.35.2020.06.11.15.43.03 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:43:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:43:02 -0400 From: Jack Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <62c8e758-1545-a483-1c2d-18296b980b4d@web.de> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.5.10-65-geb847a2f0 Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e3a3b26a-a193-4724-804f-0f38ec29ccf6 X-Archives-Hash: d4ae1831a4d3e59014fc6b87b085f96e On 2020.06.11 18:05, n952162 wrote: > On 2020-06-11 23:59, Jack wrote: >> On 2020.06.11 17:22, n952162 wrote: >>> On 2020-06-11 23:10, n952162 wrote: >>>> On 2020-06-11 23:05, Jack wrote: >>>>> It would really help if you get rid of lots of extraneous =20 >>>>> messages in the emerge output by reading all the new news items =20 >>>>> (even if you already read them elsewhere) and finish updating =20 >>>>> your config files (or deleting the update files if you already =20 >>>>> updated the actual config files.)=A0 The more you can get emerge to =20 >>>>> stop saying, the easier it is to read what it does say. >>>>=20 >>>> Okay, I'll give it a try ... actually, I did, back then.=A0 I'm not =20 >>>> sure why it didn't get marked as read. >>>>=20 >>>> But I'm really working blind on this machine.=A0 I can't see what I =20 >>>> type (which is one of the reasons I'm trying to update) - =20 >>>> Furthermore, it's in a VM and I don't have X up so I have to put =20 >>>> everything in a file and scp it around. >> Ah, that does make things difficult.=A0 I assume you don't have sshd =20 >> running on that VM.=A0 Being able to ssh in to a VM is often very =20 >> helpful, but you need to have set it up before you have problems. =20 >> Actually - if you can scp into the VM, you should be able to ssh. =20 >> Can you?=A0 If you, you should be able to do all the edit and emerges =20 >> that way. >=20 > That's a great idea that I didn't think of, but the problem is, I'm =20 > set up for NAT and as far as I know, you can't ssh in that case ... =20 > maybe I could set up some kind of port-forwarding situation, or =20 > change my networking type ... I'm not sure which is easiest....=A0=A0 I =20 > hadn't expected that this was going to get this complicated=A0 ;-)))) If you can scp you can ssh (or are you running scp from inside the =20 VM?) If so, but sshd is running in the VM, then the trick is to find =20 the right IP address to use to reach the VM. If you ssh from the VM to =20 your working PC, then you should be able to see the IP address it is =20 coming from. As long as it's the VM doing the NAT and the connection =20 is not going through a separate router, you should be OK. The other =20 way is to look at the list of connected devices on the router. You =20 should be able to identify the VM and thus the IP address it is using. =20 I would try a bit more on this ssh approach, but if it doesn't work =20 fairly quickly, I would leave it alone and continue to concentrate on =20 portage, and then upgrading the rest of the system, per Rich's =20 suggestions. >>>>=20 >>>> But I'll try to get those things cleared up. >>>=20 >>> Ah, now I see: >>>=20 >>> !!! Error: cannot update list of news items for repository "gentoo" >> Yes indeed, that's very odd.=A0 What command is that in response to?=A0 = =20 >> I would expect "emerge --sync" to update that, but I probably would =20 >> not try that until you get portage straightened out. >=20 > That was just after letting "eselect news read" run through. That sounds like a permission problem, which may end up having an =20 effect on your other efforts. In my case, it is =20 /usr/portage/metadata/news, and everything there is root:root and the =20 actual news items are all 755. You could also try doing the "eselect =20 news read new" as root.