Bug 504822 – linux-info.eclass: getfilevar_noexec emerge error with gnome-extra/gnome-boxes-3.10.2

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Francesco Turco 2014-03-16 18:02:58 UTC]

When I emerge gnome-extra/gnome-boxes-3.10.2 it shows the following error message:

# emerge gnome-boxes
Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Verifying ebuild manifests
>>> Running pre-merge checks for gnome-extra/gnome-boxes-3.10.2
 * getfilevar_noexec requires 2 variables, with the second a valid file.
 *    getfilevar_noexec <VARIABLE> <CONFIGFILE>
 * getfilevar_noexec requires 2 variables, with the second a valid file.
 *    getfilevar_noexec <VARIABLE> <CONFIGFILE>
[...]

The asterisks are red, so it's an error, not a warning. Anyway the emerge process continues without any problem, and I can successfully install the package.

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# emerge -pv gnome-boxes

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] gnome-extra/gnome-boxes-3.10.2  USE="usbredir -smartcard" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

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# emerge --info
Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.18-r1, 3.13.6-gentoo-first x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.13.6-gentoo-first-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8400_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     8103864 total,   1324836 free
KiB Swap:          0 total,         0 free
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 00:45:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45-r1
dev-lang/python:          2.7.6, 3.3.4
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.12.2
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.13.4, 1.14.1
sys-devel/binutils:       2.24-r2
sys-devel/gcc:            4.8.2
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           4.0-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.13 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.18-r1
Repositories: gentoo x-portage
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync webrsync-gpg"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j 2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_COMPRESS="xz"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bindist bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli colord cracklib crypt css cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif fam firefox flac gdbm gif gnome gnome-keyring gnome-online-accounts gstreamer gtk iconv introspection ipv6 jpeg lcms libnotify libsecret lm_sensors mad mmx modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pulseaudio qt3support readline scanner sdl session smp socialweb sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg systemd tcpd tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vorbis x264 xcb xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en en_US" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" SANE_BACKENDS="snapscan" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 2014-03-16 18:19:30 UTC]

This error is coming from linux-info.eclass; reassigning to its maintainers.

[Comment 2 Michał Górny 2014-11-28 23:35:02 UTC]

As I see it, the only thing linux-info maint can do is improve the error message. The gnome-boxes ebuild is simply using the eclass incorrectly. You are trying to perform kernel checks when no kernel sources is available.

I've fixed the issue for Funtoo with the following snippet:

pkg_pretend() {
    linux-info_get_any_version

    if linux_config_exists; then
        if ! { linux_chkconfig_present KVM_AMD || \
            linux_chkconfig_present KVM_INTEL; }; then
            ewarn "You need KVM support in your kernel to use GNOME Boxes!"
        fi
    fi
}

[Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2014-12-21 11:25:51 UTC]

+  21 Dec 2014; Gilles Dartiguelongue <[e-mail]>
+  -gnome-boxes-3.10.2.ebuild, gnome-boxes-3.12.3.ebuild:
+  Fix kernel configuration check, bug #504822. Clean up old revision.
+

Thanks for reporting.