Bug 114078 – kde-base/ktalkd-3.5.0: failure to merge, various errors

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description FieldySnuts 2005-11-30 16:33:18 UTC]

I am trying to merge kde-base/ktalkd-3.5.0 , however over the past three merge
attempts, I have gotten different errors.

1:

"!!! CATEGORY info missing from info chunk, aborting..."

2:

ln: accessing `/usr/portage/packages/kde-base/ktalkd-3.5.0.tbz2': Not a directory

!!! ERROR: kde-base/ktalkd-3.5.0 failed.
!!! Function dyn_package, Line 966, Exitcode 1
!!! Failed to create symlink in /usr/portage/packages/kde-base


3:

./usr/share/doc/ktalkd-3.5.0/AUTHORS.gz
ln: fire-eyes ~ # 


The third one is the strangest, i just got dropped back to the prompt.

Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.14.2-grsec-20051115 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14.2-grsec-20051115 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre8
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.13
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks notitles sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X aalib alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr
chroot crypt curl dv dvd dvdr eds emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg
flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal
idn imagemagick imlib java jpeg kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww lua mad mikmod mmx
mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam
pcre pdflib perl png pwdb python qt quicktime readline recode samba sdl slang
snmp spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
udev usb vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2005-12-01 04:56:11 UTC]

Please attach a complete log of the final part of the build and reopen. 

[Comment 2 FieldySnuts 2005-12-01 06:09:11 UTC]

I did not keep my merge logs for each of the above 3 isntances, so I have done
it one more time. I will attach the full merge log.

This fourth time, the error was:

ln: accessing `/usr/portage/packages/kde-base/ktalkd-3.5.0.tbz2': Not a directory

!!! ERROR: kde-base/ktalkd-3.5.0 failed.
!!! Function dyn_package, Line 966, Exitcode 1
!!! Failed to create symlink in /usr/portage/packages/kde-base

[Comment 3 FieldySnuts 2005-12-01 06:09:38 UTC]

Created attachment 73885 [details]
ktalkd-3.5.0 portage log

Thanks!

[Comment 4 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-12-01 06:22:08 UTC]

This not related to KDE, portage itself fails to link the package it created 
in /usr/portage/packages/All/ into /usr/portage/packages/kde-base/... 
 
Maybe you just need to remove /usr/portage/packages/kde-base/ktalkd-3.5.0.tbz2 
and try again? 
 

[Comment 5 FieldySnuts 2005-12-01 06:25:56 UTC]

I have removed /usr/portage/distfiles/* and /usr/portage/packages/* and
/var/tmp/portage/* multiple times, I always get one of those errors unfortuantely.

Since you say this is a portage problem, should I resubmit this against portage?

[Comment 6 FieldySnuts 2005-12-01 06:30:09 UTC]

Additionally, I just saw the failed chunk error, on a different system, trying
to merge ksplashml-3.5.0. I have emailed the details from myself at work to
home, so I can post it here, however it still hasn't arrived yet.

So it certainly seems to be with portage so far.

[Comment 7 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-12-21 08:21:44 UTC]

"!!! CATEGORY info missing from info chunk, aborting..."

This is almost always due to broken binaries. Error #3 looks like a segfault. Error #2 is strange. Can you use ln to create links successfully?

[Comment 8 FieldySnuts 2005-12-21 09:37:17 UTC]

Yes, I can link fine. At some point I got ktalkd 3.5.0 merged successfully, I don't remember when that was.

I suppose this can be closed. Thanks for the replies, I'm sorry I can't be of any further help.

[Comment 9 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-12-21 15:48:12 UTC]

Ok.