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 1P6A0e-00075Q-Ch for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:41:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF183E08BA; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC89CE08BA for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B1561B4060 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:40:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.899 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.899 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.300, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Sp-PpICsPnor for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:40:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA1B61B401E for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:40:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P6A04-0001IZ-Lv for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:40:44 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-214-85.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.214.85]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:40:44 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-214-85.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:40:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --unmerge fails Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:40:23 -0700 Message-ID: References: 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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-214-85.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101013 Thunderbird/3.3a1pre In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 927e9c4e-1087-4f4f-8694-3b144ca39b26 X-Archives-Hash: 5cd9d3407ed87574197503dbeadd276b On 10/13/2010 12:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to unmerge some packages. They all fail like this: > >>>> Unmerging www-client/arora-0.11.0... > * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed > * with exit value -1. > > centaur ~ # eix sys-apps/portage > Installed versions: 2.2_rc67(10:58:51 07/14/10)(-build -doc > > centaur ~ # eix dev-lang/python > Installed versions: 2.6.6-r1(2.6) Hm, well I'm just now updating my ~amd64 machine and I see that both python and portage are about to be updated. I'm still with the 2.1.x portage, so I can't comment on the version you're running. Were your python and portage just recently updated? Did you run python-updater after the upgrade? Perhaps the python ebuild does that for you, I'm not sure. Anyway I'd run it again just to make sure. This could be a new bug in portage, too. I'd suggest downgrading to your previous portage version -- but I'm not sure how safe that is. Anyone else know?