I have been using himerge for its superb package branch editor which unfortunately with the 30 versions appears to have broken. In starting himerge from a terminal, here is what happens when trying to save changes to package.mask or package .unmask billydv@Linux1 ~ $ himerge hima: /tmp/himerge_tmpfile12064: rename: unsupported operation (Invalid cross-device link) hima: /tmp/himerge_tmpfile12063: rename: unsupported operation (Invalid cross-device link) hima: /tmp/himerge_tmpfile12065: rename: unsupported operation (Invalid cross-device link) hima: /tmp/himerge_tmpfile12066: rename: unsupported operation (Invalid cross-device link) hima: /tmp/himerge_tmpfile12068: rename: unsupported operation (Invalid cross-device link) hima: /tmp/himerge_tmpfile12069: rename: unsupported operation (Invalid cross-device link) hima: /tmp/himerge_tmpfile12070: rename: unsupported operation (Invalid cross-device link) hima: /tmp/himerge_tmpfile12067: rename: unsupported operation (Invalid cross-device link) billydv@Linux1 ~ $ Although himerge allows you to make the changes without reporting any errors, the changes are not made to the actual files. I have tried starting himerge both as billydv and as root, didn't make a difference. I also tried easing permissions on the files, that didn't help either. Reproducible: Always emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc8 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r1-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_4200+-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.26 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.0/env /usr/kde/4.0/share/config /usr/kde/4.0/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/miscellaneous /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow S3TC X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi alsa amarok amd64 apm arts artworkextra audiofile automount avahi bash-completion berkdb bidi bittorrent bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo calendar cdda cdio cdparanoia cdr clamav cli cpudetection cracklib crypt css cups curl dbus deprecated devil dga directfb discouraged distribution divx doc dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds elisp emacs emboss emerald encode esd etc-proposals evo examples exif extraicons fam fat fax fbcon fbcondecor fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran fuse gcj gd gdbm gedit gif gimp glep glitz gmedia gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal hddtemp hfs html htmlhandbook httpd iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib inkjar ipv6 isdnlog jack java jfs joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde kdehiddenvisibility kerberos lcms ldap libcaca libnotify lirc live lm_sensors logrotate mad mail matroska mdnsresponder-compat midi mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mono mozilla mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musicbrainz mysql nas nautilus ncurses networking new-login nforce2 nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia odbc offensive ogg openexr opengl openmp pam parport pcre pdf perl pmu png postgres ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar rdesktop readline realmedia reflection regex reiser4 reiserfs samba scanner sdl seamonkey semantic-desktop servletapi session skins slang slp smp sndfile snmp sound sounds speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stream subversion svg swat symlink sysfs syslog tcpd tetex theora thesaurus threads thunderbird tidy tiff timidity tk truetype type1 unicode usb userlocales utempter utils v4l vcd vdr vlm voice vorbis vram weather wmf wmp wordperfect wxwindows xattr xcb xcomposite xforms xfs xine xml xorg xpm xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zeroconf 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 mmap_emul 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="fbdev glint i810 mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Hello Billy, I can't reproduce this bug .. though, let's see and try to get more information about it. How are you masking/unmasking the package?, tell me the exact steps. And, how are you installing Himerge?, manually from the darc repo, or using the ebuild? What are the file permissions for /usr/bin/hima?, check out that this is a suid program. Also, remember you now need to be member of the 'himerge' group to get these privileged operations working.
Okay Luis, first I start himerge from a terminal, all masking and unmasking done thru himerge. If I wish to mask a package, I will right click on the listing in himerge and choose a mask or unmask action, each time I do so I get this in terminal hima: /tmp/himerge_tmpfile17121: rename: unsupported operation (Invalid cross-device link) and the package.mask file is not edited. Both myself and root are members of the himerge group and /usr/bin/hima is set uid in permissions. I have also changed permissions on the package.mask and package.unmask but that made no difference.
I think I know what the problem might be but I have no idea what to do about it. I use several partitions for my gentoo install. / is on one partition, /var on another, /tmp on another, /usr/portage on another, and /home on another. As I was googling "Invalid cross-device link", I read that there were limitations to symlinks when using multiple partitions.
Okay, I have confirmed that this is indeed the problem Luis. When I unmount my separate /tmp partition and allow /tmp to reside on the same partition as / it works okay. I know I'm not the only one that uses multiple partitions and prior to the 30 series, it worked okay. Is there something you can do about this?
Hello Billy, I released a couple of new versions today. I think this bug is now fixed in the latest one 0.30.22.1 , please give it a try and report back. Thanks,
Luis, it's wonderful to see your dedication to himerge and your resolve to fix bugs quickly. Indeed it is fixed. Thanks!!
Hello Billy, Thank you, I wasn't sure at all and I kind of guessed what the problem in the code was, I am glad it worked. Thanks for reporting this bug, Regards,
