Bug 303361 – Emerge will not work, KDE crash

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description dan blum 2010-02-03 18:15:55 UTC]

I had a Gentoo operating system on one of my computers running KDE 3.5 for several years. I was trying to emerge hplip, to drive my photosmart printer 7360, and this would not work. So I thought this was due to a syncing issue, so I exectuted that. This action indicated to me that I had an older version of portage so I tried emerging that, part of which I presume was the upgrade to python 3.1; the instruction was to execute eselect python set python3.1, which I did.

The result of all this was that all emerge commands give the same error: "usr/bin/emerge" line 41
except permission denied, e:

Also kde will not start.

Is ther any way out of this mess?

[Comment 1 Marc-Antoine Perennou 2010-02-03 18:29:15 UTC]

did you try to go back to python 2.6 using
eselect python set python2.6
?

[Comment 2 dan blum 2010-02-03 22:36:49 UTC]

I needed to go back to python 2.5, so now emerge is working; after that I executed another sync, which deleted some kde 4.3.5 ebuilds + others. kde still not working. What now?(In reply to comment #1)
> did you try to go back to python 2.6 using
> eselect python set python2.6
> ?
> 

[Comment 3 dan blum 2010-02-03 22:48:45 UTC]

On kde, there is an error while loading shared library libjpeg.so.62 no such file. Connect() failed. Incorrect font server or address.(In reply to comment #1)
> did you try to go back to python 2.6 using
> eselect python set python2.6
> ?
> 

[Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-02-04 00:35:20 UTC]

I see several problems, but no bug. This is a bug tracker and not a support site. Please use irc://chat.freenode.net/#gentoo or http://forums.gentoo.org/ to figure out how to best upgrade your Gentoo Linux installation. You're basically here[1] and need to update your system. Good luck!


[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=12

[Comment 5 dan blum 2010-02-04 03:46:33 UTC]

I appreciate the comments. If you read my original note, I was not trying to upgrade my system. What I reported is most certainly a bug; when one tries upgrading a printer driver and the whole system colapses, that is not good. Several times when I reported something in the past, the resolution was "invalid", and I am fine that as well even if I do not agree with it; when you use free software, you are on your own. As soon as the problem happened, I knew that the cause was that the new upgrades do not tie in very well with existing systems.

I have several other partitions running on Gentoo and I will certainly be more nervous before doing any upgrades in the future.
(In reply to comment #4)
> I see several problems, but no bug. This is a bug tracker and not a support
> site. Please use irc://chat.freenode.net/#gentoo or http://forums.gentoo.org/
> to figure out how to best upgrade your Gentoo Linux installation. You're
> basically here[1] and need to update your system. Good luck!
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=12
> 

[Comment 6 dan blum 2010-02-05 21:32:36 UTC]

Joreon,

I just reopened the bug to provide additional information; it seems that there is more than meets the eye with the issue I encountered. When I eselect python 3.1 emerge does not work, as originally indicated. When I eselect python 2.5, portage will not emerge, requires python 2.6, which I do not have. When I try to emerge world, gcc or glib, I get an error of circular dependency, which I do not know a way around. Based on the above, something is not right somplace...(In reply to comment #4)
> I see several problems, but no bug. This is a bug tracker and not a support
> site. Please use irc://chat.freenode.net/#gentoo or http://forums.gentoo.org/
> to figure out how to best upgrade your Gentoo Linux installation. You're
> basically here[1] and need to update your system. Good luck!
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=12
> 

[Comment 7 Rafał Mużyło 2010-02-12 22:37:36 UTC]

This is still INVALID - caused by not upgrading too long.

There was once a python version that didn't require EAPI=2
(as that's probably your problem), but it was removed
long ago.

There are a few old threads about it - simply search for posts
about upgrading old setups.

There revdep-rebuild too, of course.

[Comment 8 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-02-14 17:48:06 UTC]

Not a bug

[Comment 9 dan blum 2010-08-05 00:01:24 UTC]

Created attachment 241447 [details]
report from revdep rebuild

[Comment 10 dan blum 2010-08-05 00:13:00 UTC]

n(In reply to comment #7)
> This is still INVALID - caused by not upgrading too long.
> 
> There was once a python version that didn't require EAPI=2
> (as that's probably your problem), but it was removed
> long ago.
> 
> There are a few old threads about it - simply search for posts
> about upgrading old setups.
> 
> There revdep-rebuild too, of course.
> 
To solve the problem, I reemerged the complete system and kde resulting in kde4.3. Recently I used sync and that partition and it deleted libjpeg.so.7, so many programs now on the system will not work. When I tried to emerge jpeg that was fine, but the version is now 8b so the programs still do not work since they are linked to version 7.
When I originally had the problem, kde would not run because syn deleted libjpeg.so,6. New version same problem.
That a maintenance program like sync would delete critical portions of an operating system without checks and balances is plain wrong, even if Mr. Souminen indicated that it is not a bug.
I attached portions of the revdep rebuild output in case anybody is interested.