currently have modutils and module-init-tools installed, no longer need modutils, however trying to unmerge modutils gives me this error- <<< Removing virtual 'sys-apps/modutils' from 'virtual/modutils' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1783, in ? if 1==unmerge(myaction, myfiles): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1452, in unmerge retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1879, in unmerge mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4308, in unmerge if mykey in myprovides[myvirt]: KeyError: virtual/module-tools I have tried to get rid of modutils with the module-init-tools merged and unmerged but still no dice:(
emerge info
post /var/cache/edb/virtuals too.
[cbrewer@killian cbrewer ]$ emerge --info Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test1 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo http://gentoo. oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/sha re/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi cups encode foomaticdb gif java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime slang xml2 xv zlib gdbm berkdb readline svga sdl gpm tcpd pam perl python imlib oggvo rbis gtk opengl 3dnow alsa -arts crypt -gnome gtk2 -kde -qt radeon spell ssl tcltk tiff truetype X xmms" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k6-2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k6-2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" [cbrewer@killian cbrewer ]$ cat /var/cache/edb/virtuals virtual/blackbox x11-wm/fluxbox virtual/xft x11-base/xfree virtual/cron sys-apps/fcron sys-apps/console-tools sys-apps/kbd virtual/editor app-editors/nano virtual/pppd net-dialup/ppp virtual/x11 x11-base/xfree sys-apps/fileutils sys-apps/coreutils sys-apps/textutils sys-apps/coreutils virtual/mda net-mail/postfix virtual/sylpheed net-mail/sylpheed-claws sys-apps/sh-utils sys-apps/coreutils virtual/python dev-lang/python virtual/kernel sys-kernel/linux-headers virtual/aspell-dict app-dicts/aspell-en virtual/module-tools sys-apps/modutils virtual/bootloader sys-apps/lilo virtual/modutils sys-apps/module-init-tools sys-apps/modutils virtual/opengl x11-base/xfree virtual/linux-sources sys-kernel/development-sources virtual/glu x11-base/xfree virtual/textbrowser net-www/lynx virtual/mta net-mail/postfix virtual/glibc sys-libs/glibc
I finally got it unmerged after editing /var/cache/edb/virtuals to remove modutils from virtual/modutils and deleted the line containing virtual/module-tools. I believe the cause to be that modutils provided virtual/module-tools when I first emerge it, then after a couple updates it also began to provide the virtual/modutils, without removing the previous virtual, throwing it into a circle. Not sure how to fix this globally for all users, but at least this was a solution.
I have a similar problem, but with unmerging an old version of gcc. This is my virtuals file: virtual/module-tools sys-apps/modutils virtual/cron sys-apps/dcron virtual/glibc sys-libs/glibc sys-apps/console-tools sys-apps/kbd virtual/editor app-editors/nano virtual/pppd net-dialup/ppp sys-apps/texinfo sys-devel/gcc virtual/bootloader sys-apps/grub virtual/python dev-lang/python virtual/modutils sys-apps/modutils virtual/mta net-mail/ssmtp And this is the error i get: # emerge unmerge gcc-2.95.3-r8 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1783, in ? if 1==unmerge(myaction, myfiles): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1452, in unmerge retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1879, in unmerge mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4308, in unmerge if mykey in myprovides[myvirt]: KeyError: sys-apps/texinfo Should i just remove the sys-apps/texinfo line from virtuals?
Any problems like these should be fixed in current portages. Post a new bug if not.
