Re: [gentoo-user] emerge coreutils-6.4 says "expr" binary missing

[Denis <denis.che@gmail.com>]

> You really need to tell us more about your system. What did you do preceding
> this?

emerge --info gives the following:

Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4, gcc-3.3.5,
glibc-2.3.1-r2,glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.20GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.8
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 0.2.7, 1.2.11
dev-lang/python:     2.2.2, 2.3.4-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present]
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12, 1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.13.90.0.18, 2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.1, 1.3.8-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.4.1-r10, 1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.19
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="no"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"

SNIP a bunch of "use" flags...

I know, I haven't updated for a while.  I was trying to update
Portage, and coreutils was listed as the necessary package to emerge
first.

> What's the output of `emerge -pv coreutils`?

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.4  -acl +nls (-selinux) -static 0 kB

> please show the output of either `equery check coreutils` or `qcheck coreutils`.

BLANK.  I ran it, and it doesn't give any output at all.

Denis



> On Thursday 01 March 2007 18:35:54 Denis wrote:
> > I was emerging coreutils to update portage, and it failed with the
> following:
> > >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 to /
> >
> > --- SNIP md5 messages ---
> >
> > /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1: /bin/expr: No such file or
> > directory * Your expr binary appears to be broken, please fix it.
> >  * For more info, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/123342
> >
> > !!! ERROR: sys-apps/coreutils-6.4 failed.
> > !!! Function pkg_setup, Line 43, Exitcode 0
> > !!! your expr is broke
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