Hi! Upon doing an emerge -avu world, portage grabs (among other things) xorg-server-1.1.1-r1 but fails the emerge. I have been to the forums but was advised to open a bug for it. URL to the forum thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-508125.html?sid=456c4d5d30a45649d646a20df760b3af I have now tried emerging with autoconf 2.59, autoconf 2.60 and then reverted back to 2.59 since that's the stable one. I have tried to emerge autoconf 2.60, m4 and xtrans with FEATURES="test" as advised in the forum thread, but it didn't help. The "steps to reproduce" for me are: 1. emerge -av xorg-server Below I have included all of the information as suggested in the forum thread. I hope you guys can make something of it. ====================================================================== This is the emerge log: * Forcing on xorg-x11 for new enough glxtokens.h... Switching to xorg-x11 OpenGL interface... done >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking xorg-server-1.1.1.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/xorg-server-1.1.1-r1/work >>> Unpacking MesaLib-6.5.1.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/xorg-server-1.1.1-r1/work * Applying xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-mesa-6.5.1.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying xorg-server-1.1.1-install-libxf86config-headers.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying 1.1.1-fix-xrandr-zoom-keys.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying 1.1.1-sparc64-ati-lockups.patch ... [ ok ] * Applying xorg-conf-example.patch ... [ ok ] * Running eautoreconf in '/var/tmp/portage/xorg-server-1.1.1-r1/work/xorg-server-1.1.1' ... * Running aclocal ... [ ok ] * Running libtoolize --copy --force --automake ... [ ok ] * Running aclocal ... [ ok ] * Running autoconf ... [ !! ] * Failed Running autoconf ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/xorg-server-1.1.1-r1/temp/autoconf-26692.out !!! ERROR: x11-base/xorg-server-1.1.1-r1 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 708: Called src_unpack xorg-server-1.1.1-r1.ebuild, line 422: Called x-modular_reconf_source x-modular.eclass, line 257: Called eautoreconf autotools.eclass, line 81: Called eautoconf autotools.eclass, line 154: Called autotools_run_tool 'autoconf' autotools.eclass, line 235: Called die !!! Failed Running autoconf ! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. ==================================================================== Contents of /var/tmp/portage/xorg-server-1.1.1-r1/temp/autoconf-26692.out: ***** autoconf ***** configure.ac:466: error: possibly undefined macro: XTRANS_CONNECTION_FLAGS If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. =================================================================== This is the output of grep XTRANS_CONNECTION_FLAGS /usr/share/aclocal/xtrans.m4: # XTRANS_CONNECTION_FLAGS() AC_DEFUN([XTRANS_CONNECTION_FLAGS], ]) # XTRANS_CONNECTION_FLAGS =================================================================== This is my emerge --info: Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17.6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17.6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:50:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict test" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo" LANG="C" LINGUAS="" 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'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 alsa bashcompletion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdda cdinstall cdio cdr cli crypt cups cvs dbus dlloader dri dts dvd elibc_glibc encode esd exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran freetype gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 httpd icq imagemagick input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jabber jpeg kernel_linux ldap libg++ lirc lirc_devices_leadtek_0010 live mad matroska mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline real reflection sdl se_swedb session spell spl sse sse2 ssl stream subversion svg svga tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l v4l2 vcd video_cards_nvidia video_cards_v4l vlm vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xml xorg xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
What version of xtrans do you have installed? Try running 'emerge -1 xtrans' and trying again.
I've got xtrans-1.0.1. I have re-emerged it several times now, and 'emerge -1 xtrans' didn't help. And I did a --sync before emerging as well, just in case something had gotten updated.
I just tried re-emerging xorg-server-1.0.2-r7 and that fails in exactly the same way. Since that emerged fine sometime long ago, I suppose I must have broken something somewhere. I still have no idea of how to fix it, though...
Try re-emerging util-macros, though I doubt that's the problem. If that doesn't work, you can always try the sledgehammer approach of 'emerge -e xorg-x11' - it should bring your system back into a state of consistency.
Re-emerging util-macros didn't work. I tried to "emerge -ave xorg-x11" but that actually doesnt work either. This time automake fails when trying to emerge xorg-docs-1.2: * Running automake --add-missing --copy --foreign ... [ !! ] * Failed Running automake ! * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/xorg-docs-1.2/temp/automake-23096.out !!! ERROR: app-doc/xorg-docs-1.2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1546: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 708: Called src_unpack ebuild.sh, line 1255: Called x-modular_src_unpack x-modular.eclass, line 272: Called x-modular_reconf_source x-modular.eclass, line 257: Called eautoreconf autotools.eclass, line 87: Called eautomake autotools.eclass, line 188: Called autotools_run_tool 'automake' '--add-missing' '--copy' '--foreign' autotools.eclass, line 239: Called die !!! Failed Running automake ! !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. The log file reported above conatins the following: ***** automake ***** sgml/Makefile.am:41: BUILD_LINUXDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL sgml/Makefile.am:44: BUILD_PDFDOC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL Seems as if my system is more broken than it seemed. Anyway, I'll try the real sledgehammer approach of doing an "emerge -ave world". If that fails to, I'll scream!
'emerge -e world' will likely fail the same way. Doing something like 'USE="-X" emerge -e system' might at least get your system rebuild. This smells a bit like a configuration file issue, which unfortunately may be a bit tricky to track down. Perhaps do a double-check of /etc/env.d for any offending variables.
Solved; the problem was not related to xorg-server, but came from a strange /etc/env.d/02locale. Sorry for inconveniences.
(In reply to comment #7) > Solved; the problem was not related to xorg-server, but came from a strange > /etc/env.d/02locale. Sorry for inconveniences. > Are you offe.holmgren@gmail.com? :P
Well, I'm glad someone got it fixed, but for me it's still broken :-). Doing "emerge -ave system" doesn't work either. It breaks on some other package than xorg-server, but I forgot to note which and to find out I'd have to try again and it takes forever before it breaks. Anyway, this seems to be related to my system being severly broken all of a sudden. I'm actually thinking about doing my first reinstall since I first installed gentoo years ago. I don't really know what else to do. Should this bug be closed since it seems to be caused by my system being broken or should I just leave it open and report back when/if I actually solve this thing?
We'll close it for now, but please re-open it if the issue still occurs. 'emerge -e system' death is definitely bad. If you do choose to reinstall, don't keep most of your old configuration, especially env.d files. You'll have to add your changes manually and piece-by-piece in case you encounter the problem again.
