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 1SEtC8-0005xd-2i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:10:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C5EBE0C25; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 02:09:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E53DE0C07 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 02:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25901B4039 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 02:07:41 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.191 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.191 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.181, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no 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 Fhdo6y6N4n_0 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 02:07:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 31BC21B4032 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 02:07:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SEt9h-0002UP-IU for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:07:33 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-193-167.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.193.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:07:33 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-193-167.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:07:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: trouble understanding a slot conflict Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:07:20 -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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-193-167.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: f53d1dce-4d70-4684-bf5b-2315922ae644 X-Archives-Hash: 6bce4133d75bc0c4b79654273159de48 On 04/02/2012 07:20 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > A normal update world turned up the error below > (~amd64, gnome profile) > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: > > sys-apps/pciutils:0 > > (sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.9-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by > >=sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.9-r1[-compress-db] required by (sys-fs/udev-171-r5::gentoo, installed) I've been through this one already ;) The ~amd64 keyword wants a newer version of udev (182-r3) than you have. The question is why you still have the old version of udev. Did you maybe mask the newer udev to avoid the infamous separate-usr-partition-is-deprecated problem?