Bug 318193 – Getting " ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink?" after doing emerge --sync

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED INVALID

[Description walt kurtz 2010-05-02 19:34:59 UTC]

I've used emerge --sync as well as emerge-webrsync.  Both completed successfully.  Now, however, any packages I try to emerge fail with:
ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -pv mailx ( or any package )
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
ARCH is not set... Are you missing the /etc/make.profile symlink?

Expected Results:  
Package installs

# eselect profile show
Current make.profile symlink:
  default/linux/amd64/10.0/server

--------------------------------
# emerge --info
Portage 2.0.54 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/server, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Hammer Family processor - Model Unknown
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
app-shells/bash:     3.1_p16
dev-java/java-config: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present]
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/cmake:      [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.11.14-r8
sys-apps/openrc:     [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/gcc:       3.4.5
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /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/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl apache2 cracklib cups cxx gnome libclamav modules mysql nls oav png python readline ssl xml apache2_modules_actions apache2_modules_alias apache2_modules_auth_basic apache2_modules_authn_alias apache2_modules_authn_anon apache2_modules_authn_dbm apache2_modules_authn_default apache2_modules_authn_file apache2_modules_authz_dbm apache2_modules_authz_default apache2_modules_authz_groupfile apache2_modules_authz_host apache2_modules_authz_owner apache2_modules_authz_user apache2_modules_autoindex apache2_modules_cache apache2_modules_dav apache2_modules_dav_fs apache2_modules_dav_lock apache2_modules_deflate apache2_modules_dir apache2_modules_disk_cache apache2_modules_env apache2_modules_expires apache2_modules_ext_filter apache2_modules_file_cache apache2_modules_filter apache2_modules_headers apache2_modules_include apache2_modules_info apache2_modules_log_config apache2_modules_logio apache2_modules_mem_cache apache2_modules_mime apache2_modules_mime_magic apache2_modules_negotiation apache2_modules_rewrite apache2_modules_setenvif apache2_modules_speling apache2_modules_status apache2_modules_unique_id apache2_modules_userdir apache2_modules_usertrack apache2_modules_vhost_alias input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mmap_emul alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol lcd_devices_bayrad lcd_devices_cfontz lcd_devices_cfontz633 lcd_devices_glk lcd_devices_hd44780 lcd_devices_lb216 lcd_devices_lcdm001 lcd_devices_mtxorb lcd_devices_ncurses lcd_devices_text ruby_targets_ruby18 xtables_addons_quota2 xtables_addons_psd xtables_addons_pknock xtables_addons_lscan xtables_addons_length2 xtables_addons_ipv4options xtables_addons_ipset xtables_addons_ipp2p xtables_addons_iface xtables_addons_geoip xtables_addons_fuzzy xtables_addons_condition xtables_addons_tee xtables_addons_tarpit xtables_addons_sysrq xtables_addons_steal xtables_addons_rawnat xtables_addons_logmark xtables_addons_ipmark xtables_addons_dhcpmac xtables_addons_delude xtables_addons_chaos xtables_addons_account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2010-05-02 19:38:20 UTC]

Your version of portage is too old for the 10.0 profile.

[Comment 2 walt kurtz 2010-05-02 20:08:22 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Your version of portage is too old for the 10.0 profile.
> 

Is there a way around this ?

[Comment 3 Sebastian Luther (few) 2010-05-03 05:47:30 UTC]

The portage version you are using has been removed almost 4 years ago. There were that many changes that reinstalling is by far the easiest way to update this system.

[Comment 4 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2010-05-03 08:14:41 UTC]

http://blog.jolexa.net/2009/03/25/gentoo-tips-to-upgrade-your-really-old-installation/

has some hints how to upgrade (the package versions mentioned there should be replaced with current stable).

[Comment 5 walt kurtz 2010-05-03 13:08:09 UTC]

Thanks for taking the time to reply.