From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KuwkJ-0001KM-Co for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:09:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E26F9E055B; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.80.33]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4857E055B for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:09:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578d291.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.210.145]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9SM8wLg024941 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:08:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id E1E6419D921; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:08:54 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync? References: <02e501c9391f$cf54cb60$a500a8c0@quan> <20081028172120.3b5084e2@rabbit.robbieab.com> <49074B7C.3080205@googlemail.com> <9acccfe50810281321l372f48b0s4498e0ef8563f363@mail.gmail.com> <20081028215138.4b93f04a@rabbit.robbieab.com> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:08:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20081028215138.4b93f04a@rabbit.robbieab.com> (Robert Bridge's message of "Tue\, 28 Oct 2008 21\:51\:38 +0000") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) 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=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 6953afe7-935a-42f7-be51-8fce68272091 X-Archives-Hash: d8027cf7ece73fb032d94c3cb2ae6c0e At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:51:38 +0000 Robert Bridge wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:21:28 -0700 > "Kevin O'Gorman" wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Daniel Pielmeier >> wrote: >> > Robert Bridge schrieb am 28.10.2008 18:21: >> >> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:08:32 -0400 >> >> "James Homuth" wrote: >> >> >> >>> During an update attempt this afternoon, these little surprises >> >>> were waiting for me. I took a look at the archives, and >> >>> naturally, google, but all I found were lots of the same error, >> >>> and no information on it/what's broken. Anyone else having this >> >>> particular problem? The block errors are below. >> >>> >> >>> [blocks B ] sys-libs/ss (is blocking >> >>> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2) >> >>> >> >>> [blocks B ] > >>> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2) >> >>> >> >>> [blocks B ] sys-libs/com_err (is blocking >> >>> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2) >> >>> >> >>> [blocks B ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs (is blocking >> >>> sys-libs/ss-1.40.9, >> >>> sys-libs/com_err-1.40.9) >> >>> >> >>> This was during an emerge --update world. >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >> emerge -C e2fsprogs, ss, com_err && emerge -1 e2fsprogs >> >> >> >> e2fsprogs is being restructured, which is causing the problem. >> > >> > If you go the route of uninstalling things first, make sure that you >> > have the sources prepared as wget might not work for some use flag >> > combinations when you remove e2fsprogs, ss, com_err in advance. >> >> Sadly, I did not read this until these were all unmerged, and wget is >> truly broken. >> >> Happily, I do run with buildpkg on all the time, but an this the >> first time I've really needed them. Getting back to a running system >> was pretty easy. >> >> However, this does not really solve the problem. What's a safe way to >> do this emerge? > > Sorry, my systems came through this a while ago, with the ~ portage, so > I never really noticed. > > For a safe solution: > > $ emerge -uDf world # fetch the code > $ emerge -C e2fsprogs, ss, com_err # clear the blockers > $ emerge -uD world # fix the system. This didn't work for me (but it does look safe). I needed to first add mit-krb5 to package.keywords This was a real mess. allan