unable to update. # emerge world -uDNpv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=gnome-base/gdm-2.20.10" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - gnome-base/gdm-2.28.1-r1 (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> (10 Jun 2009) # Several feature regressions that will make our users # go on a witchhunt if unmasked # * No XDMCP connection UI # * No configuration/theming support # * No support for auth backends other than PAM # * Many more... - gnome-base/gdm-2.26.1 (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword) - gnome-base/gdm-2.20.10-r2 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword) (dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-2.26.3" [installed]) (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. # emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc50 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.31-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r5-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_B50_Processor-with-gentoo-2.1.6 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1.6 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.0-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config" 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/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ " LANG="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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/local/portage/layman/sabayon" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alac alsa amd64 automount avahi berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss emerald encode evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 jpeg kde kvm lame ldap libnotify mad mdnsresponder-compat mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qemu qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sql sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis wavpack webkit x264 xcb xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid 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="mouse keyboard evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -upDv world Result: cannot update Expected result: To be able to update. Thanks for your attention, Mike
Please resync and try again, 2.20.10-r2 is keyworded amd64 here.
(In reply to comment #1) > Please resync and try again, 2.20.10-r2 is keyworded amd64 here. > yes i have done that. have not been able to update for some days now. does it make a difference that i am using funtoo?
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Please resync and try again, 2.20.10-r2 is keyworded amd64 here. > > > > yes i have done that. have not been able to update for some days now. > does it make a difference that i am using funtoo? > i ran #emerge gdm and it installed Installing (1 of 1) gnome-base/gdm-2.20.9-r1
it means that something is depending on a higher version of gdm but gdm-2.20.10 is masked for you, be it by local package.mask or by something funtoo does but that's something for you to check with funtoo devs.