after upgrading to sys-apps/gawk-3.1.4-r2 system no longer boots keep getting numerous gawk errors during the boot process which eventually hangs the oft repeated error is -> gawk: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory after dropping back to sys-apps/gawk-3.1.3-r2 the system boots normally Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge sys-apps/gawk-3.1.4-r2 2.boot 3. Actual Results: the errors as detailed above appear, boot process hangs Expected Results: system should have booted normally the error is consistent and repeatable on my desktop but I have no problem at all with the newer gawk on my laptop ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-ck5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-ck5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 7 2005, 11:21:35)] distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -s" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -s" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dv dvd dvdr encode esd f77 fam flac font-server fortran gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nptl odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
I got this too. It seems the new gawk links dynamically to /usr/lib/libexpat, so startup scripts that use gawk before /usr is mounted fail.
I have the same thing. The system drops to a login prompt after starting what it can with the filesystem readonly (unable to init /etc/mtab) emerge info: Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0 , 2.6.10-morph22 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-morph22 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 8 2005, 17:29:29) ] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1, 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share /config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/shar e/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home/portage" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cfq-ts crypt cups divx div x4linux dvd encode f77 fam flac font-server foomatic foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww live mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg nas ncurses nls nptl offensive oggvorbis opengl os s pam pdflib perl pic png posix ppds python quicktime readline samba sdl spell s se ssl staircase svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicod e usb xml xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
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I think you're having the same problem described in bug # 81823.
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Created attachment 51168 [details, diff] patch to remove the use of awk and gawk from /sbin/rc I've only done very limited testing of it at the time of this post.
Comment on attachment 51168 [details, diff] patch to remove the use of awk and gawk from /sbin/rc only limited testing
Created attachment 51171 [details, diff] patch to remove the use of awk and gawk from /sbin/rc limited testing
Created attachment 51172 [details, diff] patch to remove the use of awk and gawk from /sbin/rc gosh this web interface is killing me, sorry :)
I simply copied libexpat* from /usr/lib to /lib
Why is this ebuild not masked? If not an unbootable system, what makes an ebuild qualify for masking? Applying it to a remote system could be reasonably catastrophic. Shouldn't it be masked until it's resolved?
The issue is that sys-apps/gawk-3.1.4-r2 in /bin depends on dev-libs/expat in /usr/lib. The latest (-r2 only) version gawk depends on libexpat: $ ldd /bin/gawk linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4aa6a000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4ab5b000) libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x4ac6d000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4a940000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4a926000) This make my late sytem boot become big mess. I managed to login, but root filesystem was mounted read only. I had to "mount -o remount,rw /" and "cp -a /usr/lib/libexpat* /lib" in order to be able to boot it again. Two choices: - moving gawk into the land of /usr and remove the use of gawk in the init script until /usr is accessible. - moving libexpat into the land of / Thanks for fixing this thing quickly.
The origin of this bug is the patch proposed in enhancement proposal bug #57857.
Comment on attachment 51172 [details, diff] patch to remove the use of awk and gawk from /sbin/rc removal of awk from /sbin/rc will be a feature for the future, not for the current baselayout
Personally I'd like to see gentoo sometime in the future adopt mawk (GPL-2). Frankly, gawk is bloated and slow. mawk can run circles around gawk. Of all the ebuilds and system files I've seen that call gawk specifically, not one has actually used a gawk specific extension. Of course on a gentoo system and most other linux distros awk is a symlink to gawk and so it doesn't matter if you call awk or gawk -- gawk still gets executed. It would seem more fitting for a lean and mean distro such as gentoo to use a lean and mean version of awk and not some slow wimp version. :) One day I would really like to see gentoo link awk to mawk but keep gawk as an aside (even though I've never seen anything in gentoo actually use a gawk specific extension).
*** Bug 82046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
assuming we dont have problems refering to 'awk' in baselayout, you could in theory just update the /bin/awk symlink to point to mawk ... regardless, gawk-3.1.4-r3 is now in portage ... it'll build gawk twice if USE=xml, that way we get the normal gawk w/out libexpat requirements in /bin while the xml peeps get their 'xmlgawk' in /usr/bin
shew.. nice work. :) My fancy for awk didn't want to see it removed anyway. :)
*** Bug 82096 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 82137 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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*** Bug 82853 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*sigh* at least i am not the only one who has submitted this bug as duplicate :)
