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Bug 49154

Summary: GNOME emerge fails while emerging media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Pedro Monteiro <ptsm>
Component: [OLD] GNOMEAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: major    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Pedro Monteiro 2004-04-27 06:26:51 UTC
What is the math-sequence it's complaining about?

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phoebe root # emerge gnome
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 27) media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4 to /
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1: math-sequence: command not found
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /usr/portage/eclass/gst-plugins.eclass: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /usr/portage/eclass/gst-plugins.eclass: line 2: `}'

!!! ERROR: media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4 failed.
!!! Function inherit, Line 1099, Exitcode 1
!!! died sourcing /usr/portage/eclass/gst-plugins.eclass in inherit()
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Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge gnome
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
!!! ERROR: media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.6.4 failed.

Expected Results:  
Should have emerged ok.

USE="acl acpi acpi4linux amd apm cdr cgi chroot cmucl cups dnd dvd emacs \
     emacs-w3 icq imagemagick ipv6 irda irmc jabber java javascript jpeg \
     junit justify kde mad mmx mozcalendar mysql ncurses opengl \
     optional-tasks pcmcia pda pdflib php qt radeon samba sdk slp spell \
     sse stroke usb wifi xine xmms -python -gtk"
Comment 1 Pedro Monteiro 2004-04-27 07:12:23 UTC
I found that /usr/portage was corrupted.
A "rm -rf /usr/portage/" followed by an "emerge sync" fixed the problem.