Bug 322943

Summary:	Emerge says there are news items to read, but nothing to read
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	G. Náray <g_naray>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	eselect, xmw
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge --info

Description G. Náray 2010-06-06 08:06:42 UTC

After emerging something, i get these 2 lines:
 * IMPORTANT: 5 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
 * Use eselect news to read news items.

Now 5 news items, and it is rarely increasing (probably when there is new news item added?).
However, when i issue the command: eselect news read new
it says: No news is good news.

Any idea what to do with the news items?

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-07 00:21:11 UTC

Do you read them as root or as a user?

Comment 2 G. Náray 2010-06-07 23:02:48 UTC

I try to read the news with both normal user, and root. Same result: No news is good news.

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-06-10 05:18:33 UTC

Please post your `emerge --info'.

Comment 4 G. Náray 2010-06-10 07:32:36 UTC

Created attachment 234821 [details]
emerge --info

Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2011-10-20 13:36:04 UTC

Do the items show up in "eselect news list"? As unread?

Comment 6 G. Náray 2011-12-04 09:28:03 UTC

As I remember, eselect news <whatever> returned nothing or 0 result.

Update to this bugreport: I had several problems in my Gentoo for unknown reason. Since I reinstalled it from scratch, everything works better. Thus eselect news works aswell, and I can not reproduce the problem any more. Probably we should close this bugreport as unreproducable.

Comment 7 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2011-12-04 10:56:29 UTC

Closing. Feel free to reopen if the problem should resurface.