[gentoo-user] Portage detects fake "world file problems" and packages that don't exist

[gentoo-user] Portage detects fake "world file problems" and packages that don't exist

[Nikos Chantziaras]

This is weird. When doing:

emerge -auDU @world

Portage says:

============
!!! Problems have been detected with your world file
!!! Please run emaint --check world


!!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
media-sound/pavucontrol media-sound/pulseeffects sys-block/gparted

Nothing to merge; quitting.
============

My world file is fine and "emaint --check world" doesn't find anything. 
Also, all these packages that portage claims are masked or don't exist 
are not masked and they exist.

This is on ~amd64.

I'm stumped :-/

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage detects fake "world file problems" and packages that don't exist

[Jack]

If nothing else, I would start by adding a --verbose to that emerge  
command.  It may just confuse you worse, but it might add some useful  
info.

On 2022.01.08 15:44, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> This is weird. When doing:
> 
> emerge -auDU @world
> 
> Portage says:
> 
> ============
> !!! Problems have been detected with your world file
> !!! Please run emaint --check world
> 
> 
> !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
> !!! masked or don't exist:
> media-sound/pavucontrol media-sound/pulseeffects sys-block/gparted
> 
> Nothing to merge; quitting.
> ============
> 
> My world file is fine and "emaint --check world" doesn't find  
> anything. Also, all these packages that portage claims are masked or  
> don't exist are not masked and they exist.
> 
> This is on ~amd64.
> 
> I'm stumped :-/
> 
> 
> 

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage detects fake "world file problems" and packages that don't exist

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Did that already. No additional info is shown.


On 09/01/2022 01:03, Jack wrote:
> If nothing else, I would start by adding a --verbose to that emerge 
> command.  It may just confuse you worse, but it might add some useful info.
> 
> On 2022.01.08 15:44, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> This is weird. When doing:
>>
>> emerge -auDU @world
>>
>> Portage says:
>>
>> ============
>> !!! Problems have been detected with your world file
>> !!! Please run emaint --check world
>>
>>
>> !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
>> !!! masked or don't exist:
>> media-sound/pavucontrol media-sound/pulseeffects sys-block/gparted
>>
>> Nothing to merge; quitting.
>> ============
>>
>> My world file is fine and "emaint --check world" doesn't find 
>> anything. Also, all these packages that portage claims are masked or 
>> don't exist are not masked and they exist.
>>
>> This is on ~amd64.
>>
>> I'm stumped :-/
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage detects fake "world file problems" and packages that don't exist

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 22:44:08 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> This is weird. When doing:
> 
> emerge -auDU @world
> 
> Portage says:
> 
> ============
> !!! Problems have been detected with your world file
> !!! Please run emaint --check world
> 
> 
> !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
> !!! masked or don't exist:
> media-sound/pavucontrol media-sound/pulseeffects sys-block/gparted
> 
> Nothing to merge; quitting.
> ============
> 
> My world file is fine and "emaint --check world" doesn't find anything. 
> Also, all these packages that portage claims are masked or don't exist 
> are not masked and they exist.

Have you edited your world file manually? I wonder if you could have
introduced some non-ASCII characters or changed line endings - something
that portage objects to but emaint doesn't. 

If that sounds like clutching at straws, it's because it is.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Top Oxymorons Number 19: Passive aggression

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage detects fake "world file problems" and packages that don't exist

[Peter Humphrey]

On Sunday, 9 January 2022 10:00:52 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:

> Top Oxymorons Number 19: Passive aggression

> Top Oxymorons Number 20: Emotional intelligence.


-- 
Regards,
Peter.

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage detects fake "world file problems" and packages that don't exist

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 09/01/2022 12:00, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 22:44:08 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> 
>> emerge -auDU @world
>>
>> !!! Problems have been detected with your world file
>> !!! Please run emaint --check world
>>
>>
>> !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
>> !!! masked or don't exist:
>> media-sound/pavucontrol media-sound/pulseeffects sys-block/gparted
>>
>> My world file is fine and "emaint --check world" doesn't find anything.
> 
> Have you edited your world file manually? I wonder if you could have
> introduced some non-ASCII characters or changed line endings - something
> that portage objects to but emaint doesn't.

I checked and there's nothing weird in there. I even deleted the world 
file, and then recreated it by doing "emerge --noreplace" all these 
packages. Portage then re-created the world file.

Same result.

I then spend some time trying to find the packages that cause the 
problem. I tracked it down to media-sound/pulseeffects. If I remove just 
that one package from the world file, then the error message is gone, 
but also "emerge -uDU @world" is now much faster.

This package is probably triggering a portage bug.

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage detects fake "world file problems" and packages that don't exist

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/01/2022 22:44, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> This is weird. When doing:
> 
> emerge -auDU @world
> 
> Portage says:
> 
> ============
> !!! Problems have been detected with your world file
> !!! Please run emaint --check world
> 
> 
> !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
> !!! masked or don't exist:
> media-sound/pavucontrol media-sound/pulseeffects sys-block/gparted
> 
> Nothing to merge; quitting.
> ============

It was a bug and it's fixed now: https://bugs.gentoo.org/830881