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Bug 2486 - Stage2 & 3 images seem to cause merge errors, missing depends & libraries
Summary: Stage2 & 3 images seem to cause merge errors, missing depends & libraries
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High blocker (vote)
Assignee: Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)
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Blocks: 2340 2351
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Reported: 2002-05-05 23:49 UTC by Leif Brown
Modified: 2005-03-25 11:24 UTC (History)
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Description Leif Brown 2002-05-05 23:49:54 UTC
Doing an install from Stage 2 or Stage 3 images seems to cause a number of
problems with later merges, as though some packages were unavailable,
dependancies were unresolvable, or portage were reporting packages merged when
merging had actually failed.

Examples:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2340
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2351

Doing an install from Stage 1, this is not a problem.

This seems also to be the root of the "qmngio.cpp", "all-recursive", and
"libpng" problems showing up in the installation forums.  (That's most of the
complaints about qt, kde & gnome not compiling, opera not working, ...)

Also, the linux-headers package doesn't seem to merge properly to Stage 1 & 2
installs, causing kernel compile problems, and emerge system doesn't work there,
either.

These all seem to be related -- looks like maybe portage is reporting packages
merged when merging failed?  This may be at the root of a lot of the confusion
on the installation forums & the bug traffic that's been going on today.

This may need to be something you evaluate for new, irreproducible bugs.

I haven't tried to duplicate this with any version but 1.1a.

Moved severity to blocker, since stage 2 & 3 systems are all but unuseable with
this situation.  If you can figure out what's wrong (and preferrably how to fix
it without recompiling from scratch, since bootstrap.sh & emerge system
consistently die midway) you'll fix a lot of the problems filling the
installation and newbie forums.
Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-05-07 00:57:40 UTC
OK; I'm creating a new stage1, then stage2 and stage3.  This is probably due to
a buggy portage in stage2 and stage3.
Comment 2 Leif Brown 2002-06-04 07:16:35 UTC
I can't reproduce this problem since the new build.
Changing status to fixed.
Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-25 11:24:46 UTC
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.