Bug 114829 – I get ">>> Updating Portage cache: 90%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild." when I do emerge sync

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Chris 2005-12-07 21:18:43 UTC]

I haven't touched my Gentoo system in nearly a year and so when I did, I decided
to emerge sync. After it gets close to finishing, I get:-
>>> Updating Portage cache:   90%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an
ebuild.
!!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/x11-6.8)

Output of /var/log/emerge.log:-
1134050337: Started emerge on: Dec 09, 2005 00:58:57
1134050337:  *** emerge  sync
1134050337:  === sync
1134050337: >>> starting rsync with rsync://203.87.95.205/gentoo-portage
1134051252: === Sync completed with rsync://203.87.95.205/gentoo-portage
1134051426:  *** terminating.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run 'emerge sync'

Actual Results:  
After running it a second time, I get:-
>>> Updating Portage cache:   88%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an
ebuild.
!!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/x11-6.8)


Expected Results:  
Successfully update the portage cache completely and return the prompt without
error.

Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.11-love2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-love2 i686 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M 2600+
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.3-r1 [2.3.3 (#1, Sep 20 2004, 11:11:43)]
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.3-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r4
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.14.90.0.8-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.2-r5
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O1 -march=athlon-xp -fexpensive-optimizations
-fdelete-null-pointer-checks -frerun-cse-after-loop -funit-at-a-time
-freorder-functions -falign-jumps -fcaller-saves -fmove-all-movables
-fcse-skip-blocks -fno-defer-pop -falign-functions -fno-merge-constants
-falign-loops -frerun-loop-opt -mno-push-args -fsched-interblock -falign-labels"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/X11/xkb /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="-O1 -march=athlon-xp -fno-omit-frame-pointer -mieee-fp
-maccumulate-outgoing-args -fsched-spec -fno-math-errno -falign-labels
-freorder-functions -frerun-loop-opt -fdelete-null-pointer-checks -mno-push-args
-funswitch-loops -fno-crossjumping -falign-functions -fno-signaling-nans
-fcse-follow-jumps -ffinite-math-only -frename-registers
-fbranch-target-load-optimize2"
DISTDIR="/storage/distfiles/distfiles/"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks prelink sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo
ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X X509 acl acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bash-completion bzip2
bzlib cddb cdr cgi chroot clamav crypt cscope cups curl dga divx4linux dvd dvdr
eds emboss encode escreen ethereal evo exif expat faad fam fbcon ffmpeg flash
flood foomaticdb gcj gif gimp gimpprint glut gmp gnome gs gtk gtk2 hal icq idn
ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipalias ipv6 irda irmc java javascript
jp2 jpeg kde kdexdeltas kerberos krb4 lcms ldap libcaca libg++ lzw lzw-tiff
maildir matroska mbox mhash ming mmx mmx2 mng mono mozcalendar mozilla
moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mplayer
msn mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh ncurses nowin nptl ntlm
odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl pam parse-clocks pcap pcre pdflib perl php pic png
ppds pthreads python qt quicktime readline samba sasl sdl session slp softmmu
spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg svga szip tcltk tcpd theora tiff transcode truetype
truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vhosts vim-with-x
vorbis wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xsl xv xvid yahoo
yaz zeo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2005-12-07 21:47:54 UTC]

It will probably still be able to upgrade to the latest version of portage.  Run
`emerge portage && emerge --metadata` and hopefully that will fix it.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-08 03:02:55 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114798 ***