I've installed Gentoo Linux 1.4 from stage 1 to my laptop. Everything went fine until I tried emerging gnome-2.4. Installing gst-plugins-0.6.3 fails with the following output >>> Install gst-plugins-0.6.3 into /var/tmp/portage/gst-plugins-0.6.3/image/ category media-libs * No such plugin directory !!! ERROR: media-libs/gst-plugins-0.6.3 failed. !!! Function gst-plugins_find_plugin_dir, Line 69, Exitcode 0 !!! (no error message) My settings are Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r7)================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium3 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gpm jpeg gnome libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png qt quicktime sdl spell svga truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline X tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk opengl dvd mmx pcmcia -arts -kde" I don't seem to be the only one with this problem http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=95524
I am also having this same problem: >>> Install gst-plugins-0.6.3 into /var/tmp/portage/gst-plugins-0.6.3/images/ category media-libs * No such plugin directory seems like a script error... I haven't been able to find a way around it, I get it when I do "emerge gnome"... makes my installation unusable as a desktop pc.
This appears to have been fixed now, as reported in the aforementioned forum thread - I'm happy to confirm that a fresh 'emerge sync' has fixed it for me.
yes the one in the tree was broken for a short while, little miscalculation on my side. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30762 ***