On one of my systems, I have net-misc/networkmanager-0.8.1 masked (to prevent a dhcp bug) but not gnome-extra/nm-applet-0.8.1, and then, emerge skips nm-applet as it should: # emerge -avuDN world ... !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies: gnome-extra/nm-applet:0 !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=net-misc/networkmanager-0.8.1" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - net-misc/networkmanager-0.8.1 (masked by: package.mask) (dependency required by "gnome-extra/nm-applet-0.8.1" [ebuild]) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] ___ But the situation crashes when a different dependency problem appears, for example, when I drop "avahi" USE flag from my make.conf I get the following wrong message: # emerge -avuDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=net-misc/networkmanager-0.8.1" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - net-misc/networkmanager-0.8.1 (masked by: package.mask) (dependency required by "gnome-extra/nm-applet-0.8.1" [ebuild]) (dependency required by "world" [argument]) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. This is wrong since nm-applet/networkmanager masking is not the root of the problem and, to find the real problem, I need to manually mask nm-applet also and, finally, I am able to see the real problem: # emerge -avuDN world ... * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. ('installed', '/', 'net-dns/avahi-0.6.25-r1', 'nomerge') pulled in by net-dns/avahi required by ('installed', '/', 'net-im/pidgin-2.7.2', 'nomerge') ('ebuild', '/', 'net-misc/mDNSResponder-212.1', 'merge') pulled in by net-misc/mDNSResponder required by ('ebuild', '/', 'net-print/cups-1.3.11-r2', 'merge') For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked __ This is the error that should have shown at start, not a wrong one pointing to a problem with nm-applet Thanks a lot :-) Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-tuxonice-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-tuxonice-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T9300_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:35:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native" DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests autoaddcvs ccache cvs distlocks fixpackages multilib-strict news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign split-log strict test test-fail-continue unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org" LANG="es_ES.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/local/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/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa amd64 applet bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cddb cleartype cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dell dri dts dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif fam fat ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gdu gif glitz gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hal hddtemp iconv ieee1394 ipod java jpeg kdehiddenvisibility laptop latex lcms ldap libnotify lm_sensors lyx mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musicbrainz nautilus ncurses network networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly ntfs nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection reiserfs scanner sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l2 vdpau vorbis webkit wifi x264 xattr xcb xml xmp xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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 cgi cgid 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="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always
(In reply to comment #0) > But the situation crashes when a... crashes -> changes
Still the same with 2.1.9.x
Maybe you've hit the backtracking limit. Can you try with --backtrack=20 or something like that? There is also more advanced backtracking support in >=portage-2.2_rc90, so you may want to test with that in addition to the latest portage-2.1.x release.
