Bug 380579 – net-misc/nxserver-freeedition-3.5.0.8 - NX> 704 ERROR: Unable to autodetect the operating system type, please specify it

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Lyall Pearce 2011-08-24 23:46:19 UTC]

During setup, the following diagnostic is generated.

The specified SYSTEM must be one of the following operating systems,
or none. In the latter case the NX setup will try to autodetect the
system or will choose the layout that better resembles one of the
known systems.

       redhat       RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, AS, ES, etc.
       suse         SuSE 7.3, 8.x, 9.x, etc.
       mandrake     Mandrake 9.2 10.x, etc.
       debian       Debian Woody 3.0, Unstable, Ubuntu, etc.
       solaris      Sun Solaris 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, etc.
       fedora       Fedora Core 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. 
NX> 704 ERROR: Unable to autodetect the operating system type, please specify it


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge nxserver-freeedition
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
emerge fails

Expected Results:  
emerge to work

root@pearcely2 emerge
# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.10.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.39-gentoo-r3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_M_620_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:          4.1_p9
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:          2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.4-r1
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.26
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.0.3
sys-apps/openrc:          0.8.3-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:       1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.21.1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.4.5
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.4.1-r1
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.12.2
Repositories: gentoo godin My_Local_Overlay
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=core2 -march=core2 -ggdb"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /lib/udev/rules.d /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-2.2/conf /usr/share/maven-bin-3.0/conf /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/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mtune=core2 -march=core2 -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/portage/gentoo/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=y --color=n"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linuxcoe.corp.hp.com/LinuxCOE/Gentoo ftp://mirror.internode.on.net/gentoo"
LANG="en_AU.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
PKGDIR="/portage/gentoo/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="/tmp"
PORTDIR="/portage/gentoo"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/portage/layman/godin /portage/local"
SYNC="rsync://mirror.internode.on.net/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 amr apache2 berkdb bindist bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdb cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cleartype cli consolekit corefonts cracklib crypt css cups cxx daap dbus dri dts dvb dvd dvdr emacs emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gd gdbm gdu gif gpm gtk iconv ipod ipv6 java javascript joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde laptop latin1 lcms ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad mikmod mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl pmu png policykit posix ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline rss samba sdl server session smp spell sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff transcode truetype type1 udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis wifi wma x264 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc 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 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" 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, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2012-12-01 08:20:37 UTC]

Problem here is that /usr/NX/scripts/setup/nxserver script relies on /usr/portage existence, while having /usr/portage is completely unreliable:

if [ -d /usr/portage ];
then
  system=gentoo
fi

I guess it's better to rely on /etc/gentoo-release. 

@base-system: is this ok to rely on /etc/gentoo-release for gentoo system detection?

[Comment 2 Bernard Cafarelli 2013-01-21 16:23:56 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1) 
> @base-system: is this ok to rely on /etc/gentoo-release for gentoo system
> detection?

CC'ing base-system so they get a change to anwser ;)

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2013-01-21 16:52:33 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1) 
> > @base-system: is this ok to rely on /etc/gentoo-release for gentoo system
> > detection?
> 
> CC'ing base-system so they get a change to anwser ;)

Use /etc/os-release and the ID tag

[Comment 4 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2013-01-21 16:52:47 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > (In reply to comment #1) 
> > > @base-system: is this ok to rely on /etc/gentoo-release for gentoo system
> > > detection?
> > 
> > CC'ing base-system so they get a change to anwser ;)
> 
> Use /etc/os-release and the ID tag

...and fallback to gentoo-release

[Comment 5 Bernard Cafarelli 2013-01-22 00:15:00 UTC]

Thanks Samuli! This is now in a new nxserver patch, applied in nxserver-freeedition-3.5.0.11-r1