I've removed some duplicated ebuilds that I had installed trusting that revdep-rebuild and emerge -uD world would just install them if they were really needed. Maybe this wasn't a good idea, but I wanted to clean up my system. revdep-rebuild went fine, but I now can't emerge -uD world. It wants to emerge this: [ebuild N ] app-text/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.12 [ebuild NS ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2-r5 [ebuild N ] app-text/scrollkeeper-0.3.14 [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.8.0 [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libsigc++-1.2.5 [ebuild N ] dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.2.12 [ebuild N ] dev-cpp/gconfmm-2.0.2 [ebuild N ] dev-cpp/libgnomecanvasmm-2.0.1 [ebuild N ] dev-cpp/libglademm-2.0.1 [ebuild N ] dev-cpp/libgnomemm-2.0.1 [ebuild N ] dev-cpp/libgnomeuimm-2.0.0 but it fails to emerge: app-text/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.12 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -uD world Actual Results: These are just the last error messages, I get more than 1000 lines of errors (the number of lines my console saves), in case you need more information, just ask for it: jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.77/html/../common/../common/dbl1sr.dsl:3:5:E:reference to entity "lat2" for which no system identifier could be generated jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.77/html/../common/../common/dbl1sr.dsl:2:0: entity was defined here jade:/etc/sgml/catalog:1:8:E: cannot open "/etc/sgml/sgml-ent.cat" (No such file or directory) jade:/etc/sgml/catalog:5:8:E: cannot open "/etc/sgml/sgml-lite.cat" (No such file or directory) <<< LOTS OF THESE >>> jade:/etc/sgml/catalog:1:8:E: cannot open "/etc/sgml/sgml-ent.cat" (No such file or directory) jade:/etc/sgml/catalog:5:8:E: cannot open "/etc/sgml/sgml-lite.cat" (No such file or directory) make[2]: *** [backend-spec.html] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[2]: *** [fdl.html] Error 1 make[2]: *** [docbook2texi.html] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.12/work/docbook-utils-0.6.12/doc' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: app-text/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.12 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 510, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Expected Results: Install app-text/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.12 # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (gcc34-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/ ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb divx4linux dvb dvd dvdr emacs emacs-w3 encode esd exif f77 fam fbcon flac flash foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk2 guile imagemagick imap imlib inifile innodb ipv6 jabber joystick jpeg kde ldap leim libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mcal mhash mikmod mime mmx mmx2 mng moilla motif mozilla mpeg mule mysql mysqli ncurses nls objc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl plotutils png portaudio posix ppds python qt quicktime readline sasl scanner sdl shared simplexml slang slp sndfile sockets speel speex spell ssl svg svga tcpd tetex theora tidy tiff truetype trutype unicode usb vhosts videos wmfx86 xine xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xosd xpm xprint xsl xv xvid zeo zlib linguas_en linguas_es linguas_eo"
Would you remove the line containing "/etc/sgml/sgml-ent.cat" and "/etc/sgml/sgml-lite.cat" from /etc/sgml/catalog and emerge the rest?
Ok, I did it, and the error changed: jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.77/html/../common/../common/dbl1sr.dsl:2:66:W: cannot generate system identifier for public text "ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 2//EN" jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.77/html/../common/../common/dbl1sr.dsl:3:5:E:reference to entity "lat2" for which no system identifier could be generated jade:/usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets-1.77/html/../common/../common/dbl1sr.dsl:2:0: entity was defined here make[2]: *** [api.html] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[2]: *** [backend-spec.html] Error 1 make[2]: *** [docbook2texi.html] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.12/work/docbook-utils-0.6.12/doc' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: app-text/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.12 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 510, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Thanks :D
Well, certainly removing things randomly without really knowing the consequences is not a very good idea. You broke your system and at this point you should really try using a clean system before reporting a bug. Nonetheless, I'd recommend that you emerge build-docbook-catalog and run it to see if that helps in your case, if the problem is still relevant.
