Bugzilla Bug 206753

tried to build gnome on a fresh ~amd64 system and bumped into this problem.
gnome-desktop-2.20.2 builds fine. 

failure starts with
xsltproc -o lgpl-zh_CN.omf --stringparam db2omf.basename lgpl --stringparam
db2omf.format 'docbook' --stringparam db2omf.dtd "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML
V4.1.2//EN" --stringparam db2omf.lang zh_CN --stringparam db2omf.omf_dir
"/usr/share/omf" --stringparam db2omf.help_dir "/usr/share/gnome/help"
--stringparam db2omf.omf_in
"/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.20.3/work/gnome-desktop-2.20.3/desktop-docs/lgpl/lgpl.omf.in"
 `/usr/bin/pkg-config --variable db2omf gnome-doc-utils` zh_CN/lgpl.xml || { rm
-f "lgpl-zh_CN.omf"; exit 1; }
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:115: parser warning :
PEReference: %list.class; not found
                %local.divcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:115: parser warning :
PEReference: %admon.class; not found
                %local.divcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^


and ends with:
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:243: parser error :
Content error in the external subset
<!ATTLIST setinfo
    ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:243: parser error :
Content error in the external subset
<!ATTLIST setinfo
       ^
unable to parse hu/lgpl.xml
make[3]: *** [lgpl-hu.omf] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.20.3/work/gnome-desktop-2.20.3/desktop-docs/lgpl'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.20.3/work/gnome-desktop-2.20.3/desktop-docs'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.20.3/work/gnome-desktop-2.20.3'
make: *** [all] Error 2

My emerge --info looks like this:
20-xen-r6 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-xen-r6 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:16:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-lang/python:     2.5.1-r5
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/4.0/env /usr/kde/4.0/share/config
/usr/kde/4.0/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf
/etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage-distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict
unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/toolchain"
SYNC="rsync://ftp.belnet.be/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib
crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox
fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde
kerberos ldap mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly
ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4
quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd tiff
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis xml xorg xv zlib"
ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x
ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3
trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw
asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa
lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol"
APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm
authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host
authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir
disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info
log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling
status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz
cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Had similar errors here, x86 system:

http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:115: parser warning :
PEReference: %list.class; not found
                %local.divcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:115: parser warning :
PEReference: %admon.class; not found
                %local.divcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:115: parser warning :
PEReference: %linespecific.class; not found
                %local.divcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:115: parser warning :
PEReference: %synop.class; not found
                %local.divcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:115: parser warning :
PEReference: %para.class; not found
                %local.divcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:115: parser warning :
PEReference: %informal.class; not found
                %local.divcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:115: parser warning :
PEReference: %formal.class; not found
                %local.divcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:115: parser warning :
PEReference: %compound.class; not found
                %local.divcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:115: parser warning :
PEReference: %genobj.class; not found
                %local.divcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:115: parser warning :
PEReference: %descobj.class; not found
                %local.divcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:115: parser warning :
PEReference: %ndxterm.class; not found
                %local.divcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:125: parser warning :
PEReference: %list.class; not found
                %local.refcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:125: parser warning :
PEReference: %admon.class; not found
                %local.refcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:125: parser warning :
PEReference: %linespecific.class; not found
                %local.refcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:125: parser warning :
PEReference: %synop.class; not found
                %local.refcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:125: parser warning :
PEReference: %para.class; not found
                %local.refcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:125: parser warning :
PEReference: %informal.class; not found
                %local.refcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:125: parser warning :
PEReference: %formal.class; not found
                %local.refcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:125: parser warning :
PEReference: %compound.class; not found
                %local.refcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:125: parser warning :
PEReference: %genobj.class; not found
                %local.refcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:125: parser warning :
PEReference: %descobj.class; not found
                %local.refcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:125: parser warning :
PEReference: %ndxterm.class; not found
                %local.refcomponent.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:135: parser warning :
PEReference: %linespecific.class; not found
                %local.indexdivcomponent.mix;">
                                              ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:135: parser warning :
PEReference: %synop.class; not found
                %local.indexdivcomponent.mix;">
                                              ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:135: parser warning :
PEReference: %para.class; not found
                %local.indexdivcomponent.mix;">
                                              ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:135: parser warning :
PEReference: %informal.class; not found
                %local.indexdivcomponent.mix;">
                                              ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:135: parser warning :
PEReference: %link.char.class; not found
                %local.indexdivcomponent.mix;">
                                              ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:141: parser warning :
PEReference: %tech.char.class; not found
                %local.refname.char.mix;">
                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:156: parser warning :
PEReference: %xref.char.class; not found
                %local.refinline.char.mix;">
                                           ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:156: parser warning :
PEReference: %gen.char.class; not found
                %local.refinline.char.mix;">
                                           ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:156: parser warning :
PEReference: %link.char.class; not found
                %local.refinline.char.mix;">
                                           ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:156: parser warning :
PEReference: %tech.char.class; not found
                %local.refinline.char.mix;">
                                           ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:156: parser warning :
PEReference: %base.char.class; not found
                %local.refinline.char.mix;">
                                           ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:156: parser warning :
PEReference: %docinfo.char.class; not found
                %local.refinline.char.mix;">
                                           ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:156: parser warning :
PEReference: %other.char.class; not found
                %local.refinline.char.mix;">
                                           ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:156: parser warning :
PEReference: %ndxterm.class; not found
                %local.refinline.char.mix;">
                                           ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:204: parser warning :
PEReference: %role.attrib; not found
<!ENTITY % set.role.attrib "%role.attrib;">
                                          ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:219: parser warning :
PEReference: %status.attrib; not found
                %status.attrib;
                               ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:220: parser warning :
PEReference: %common.attrib; not found
                %common.attrib;
                               ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:230: parser warning :
PEReference: %role.attrib; not found
<!ENTITY % setinfo.role.attrib "%role.attrib;">
                                              ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:236: parser warning :
PEReference: %bibliocomponent.mix; not found
        | keywordset | itermset | %bibliocomponent.mix;)+)>
                                                       ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:236: parser error :
ContentDecl : Name or '(' expected
        | keywordset | itermset | %bibliocomponent.mix;)+)>
                                                       ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:236: parser error :
expected '>'
        | keywordset | itermset | %bibliocomponent.mix;)+)>
                                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:236: parser error :
Content error in the external subset
        | keywordset | itermset | %bibliocomponent.mix;)+)>
                                                         ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:243: parser warning :
PEReference: %setinfo.attlist; not found
<![%setinfo.attlist;[
                    ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:243: parser error :
conditional section INCLUDE or IGNORE keyword expected
<![%setinfo.attlist;[
                    ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:243: parser error :
Content error in the external subset
<!ATTLIST setinfo
 ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:243: parser error :
Content error in the external subset
<!ATTLIST setinfo
    ^
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbhierx.mod:243: parser error :
Content error in the external subset
<!ATTLIST setinfo
       ^
unable to parse C/gpl.xml
make[3]: *** [gpl-C.omf] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.20.3/work/gnome-desktop-2.20.3/desktop-docs/gpl'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.20.3/work/gnome-desktop-2.20.3/desktop-docs'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.20.3/work/gnome-desktop-2.20.3'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Interestingly it did compile on the third attempt - not sure what was going on
there... (parse errors don't sound like hardware, and this system was rock
solid on all other compiles, including kernel, gcc and glibc)

emerge --info:

Portage 2.1.3.19 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.23-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:16:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r6
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans
userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo "
LANG="C"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aac acl acpi alsa asf berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr cli
cracklib crypt cups dbus dga dri dv dvd dvdr flac fortran ftp gdbm gif gpm
gstreamer gtk hal iconv icq isdnlog java jpeg lame mad matroska midi mmx mp3
mplayer msn mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg openal opengl
openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python readline reflection samba sdl session
spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg svga tcpd truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vorbis win32codecs wmf x264 x86 xine xinerama xorg
xpm xscreensaver xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem
bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801
hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem
ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug
file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate
route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias
authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default
authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs
dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter
headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation
rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias"
ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux"
LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses
text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint
i128 i740 i810 imstt mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3
s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via
vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS,
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

This is common. The build tries to use internet for certain stages of the build
and it is not always able to make the connection. You can usually get it to
succeed by emerging it a few times.

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is common. The build tries to use internet for certain stages of the build
> and it is not always able to make the connection. You can usually get it to
> succeed by emerging it a few times.
> 

What does one do if retrying the emerge continues to fail?  I'm on emerge #7 at
time of writing, and it is still failing with parse errors.  unfortunately,
this is on a pentium/MMX, and the compiles are expensive, time-wise.

I do have the same problems. I had enabled FEATURES="distcc" and
MAKOPTS="-j15". After disabling both of them and building serial the emerge was
successful but really slow ;) Perhaps we should disable the parallel build?

My suggestion to everyone who has the problem - #MAKOPTS and no distcc ...

g, mueli

After another 12 or so failed emerges of this package, I did an
# emerge --sync
# emerge libxslt

then tried again.  it failed.
then I did an 
#emerge --resume

three more times, and the third run completed successfully.

From what I have found here, and in the forums, I posit that the problem is
caused by the xslt processor downloading  XML definitions repeatedly, once per
file instead of caching them.  Either that, or xsltproc downloads such a wide
variety of them during the emerge that it hammers an underpowered server. 
Maybe the ebuild maintainer can speak to this with more authority, but if they
were to put a tarball of these xml definition files on sourceforge or somewhere
like that, for a one-shot download, then get xslt to use the local files
instead?  It makes little sense that an emerge should fail because of
intermittent website availability. (as it appears to do now...)

A similar problem exists for the w3c, as they document here:
http://www.w3.org/blog/systeam/2008/02/08/w3c_s_excessive_dtd_traffic

*** Bug 213830 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

From reading the man page for xsltproc, the easiest way to fix seems to be to
have the various ebuilds that use xsltproc specify the argument --novalid
unless debug or test is active.

or if not --novalid, at least --nonet ?

Any plans to fix this issue? I just ran in to it and banged my head for an hour
until someone pointed me here.

x86 system.

We're looking at it.  We'll hopefully be able to put a fix in one of the
eclasses.  It's kinda hard to get right tho, so it will take some time.

Well, this is the last thing currently blocking the upcoming release, so any
workaround, even hacks, are acceptable (for releng, only, not necessarily for
the tree)...

If anybody has a known-good copy of this DTD, I can host it on our build server
and for "www.open-oasis.org" to be "127.0.0.1" and serve the file from there.

(In reply to comment #11)
> Well, this is the last thing currently blocking the upcoming release, so any
> workaround, even hacks, are acceptable (for releng, only, not necessarily for
> the tree)...
> 
> If anybody has a known-good copy of this DTD, I can host it on our build server
> and for "www.open-oasis.org" to be "127.0.0.1" and serve the file from there.
> 

I'd hold off of committing to this solution -- It looks like there may be an
overall problem with the DTDs, that should be fixed elsewhere, (Like maybe
<foo>tex upstream?) Take a look at bugid 192243, comment#14 for example.

I'll post more details in the appropriate place, (when I find one,) but on a
sync'd-today portage tree, I've got about 12 packages that fail to update due
to jadetex generated DTD errors, and gnome-desktop isn't one of them...
(anymore.)

With respect to "the appropriate place," would any seasoned gentoo devs be able
to suggest the right place to submit this DTD issue?  From the uninitiate's
perspective, it looks like any package with a doc parser will be hit by this -
xsltproc, jadetex, etc...

(In reply to comment #8)
> or if not --novalid, at least --nonet ?
> 

This is what I did by adding the following to src_unpack()

    # Bypass bug 206753 online DTD checks fail
    for I in desktop-docs/lgpl/Makefile.in desktop-docs/gpl/Makefile.in
desktop-docs/fdl/Makefile.in gnome-doc-utils.make
    do
        sed -e 's:xsltproc :xsltproc --novalid :' -i ${S}/$I
    done

1- My build of the liveCD now continues
2- It speeds up the build process (a build process that goes on the
net!...pew!)
3- I'm only commenting on this bug since it's a blocker for releng with such a
simple workaround (!?)...is there something I am not getting? Am-I really
breaking something?

Keep up the good work releng, I'm going through your hell ;)

(In reply to comment #13)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > or if not --novalid, at least --nonet ?
> > 
> 
> This is what I did by adding the following to src_unpack()
> 
>     # Bypass bug 206753 online DTD checks fail
>     for I in desktop-docs/lgpl/Makefile.in desktop-docs/gpl/Makefile.in
> desktop-docs/fdl/Makefile.in gnome-doc-utils.make
>     do
>         sed -e 's:xsltproc :xsltproc --novalid :' -i ${S}/$I
>     done

Nice :)

> 1- My build of the liveCD now continues

Chris, if it works for you, I suggest you use this hack. We still haven't fully
figured out which DTDs are missing, so please use that for 2008.0's portage
snapshot.

(In reply to comment #14)
[...]
> Chris, if it works for you, I suggest you use this hack. We still haven't fully
> figured out which DTDs are missing, so please use that for 2008.0's portage
> snapshot.

We just might have the solution (at least without FEATURES="test"). Does
installing docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2 fix this?

I believe this should be a (R?)DEPEND for gnome-desktop-2.20.3. There's some
more b0rkage with the scrollkeeper DTD, but that only crops up with
FEATURES="test".

(In reply to comment #15)
> I believe this should be a (R?)DEPEND for gnome-desktop-2.20.3. There's some
> more b0rkage with the scrollkeeper DTD, but that only crops up with
> FEATURES="test".

Hrm, the scrollkeeper DTD is needed, with and without FEATURES="test". This is
not an issue on a stable system, though, since the DTD is only missing on 2.22
(with rarian replacing scrollkeeper).

(In reply to comment #15)
[...]
> We just might have the solution (at least without FEATURES="test"). Does
> installing docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2 fix this?

So kyron has tested this, and it fixes the bug. Thanks a bunch to him for
spending the time and effort. :)

Gilles can probably provide a more comprehensive update on what is required at
this point to close.

ok, I've fixed the DEPEND of all gnome-desktop versions since it was absent in
all. Concerning the issue about scrollkeeper-dtds that was discovered during
analysis of this bug, I'll add release to bug #229123 for a detailled
explanation. Interested people can follow there as well.