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Bug 54526

Summary: emerge plex86 fails in various ways
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Gábor BORGULYA <bvg.linuxnewbie>
Component: New packagesAssignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: major CC: jakub, lordvan, vanquirius
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: emerge_plex86_fail1.log
emerge_plex86_fail2.log
emerge_plex86_fail3.log
emerge.info

Description Gábor BORGULYA 2004-06-20 08:29:30 UTC
Emerging the plex package has failed for me, with varying error 
messages for the different tries.

I will attach the emerge outputs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. nohup emerge --verbose plex86 &
Comment 1 Gábor BORGULYA 2004-06-20 08:32:33 UTC
Created attachment 33640 [details]
emerge_plex86_fail1.log
Comment 2 Gábor BORGULYA 2004-06-20 08:33:22 UTC
Created attachment 33641 [details]
emerge_plex86_fail2.log
Comment 3 Gábor BORGULYA 2004-06-20 08:34:02 UTC
Created attachment 33642 [details]
emerge_plex86_fail3.log
Comment 4 Gábor BORGULYA 2004-06-20 08:37:32 UTC
Created attachment 33643 [details]
emerge.info
Comment 5 Digby Russell Simon Tarvin 2005-04-19 15:33:34 UTC
Just tried an emerge which current system, and same problem here. Looks like it is still broken :-(
Comment 6 Mike Hepple 2005-04-28 16:22:07 UTC
Problem also occurs on my machine.
Comment 7 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-08-11 04:32:04 UTC
Re-assigning stale bugs. Someone pick this up or remove the ebuild from portage.
Comment 8 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-08-20 10:43:48 UTC
Hello,

I patched up this thing in -r1 to allow it to compile. It uses a lot of ancient
devfs stuff and other ancient kernel stuff, which I basically hacked and
slashed. Beware that my patch is dangerous!

That said, please test if it runs ok.

Cheers,
Marcelo
Comment 9 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-17 15:07:42 UTC
plex86 has many issues and no simple solution to all of them. Considering the
amount of very old kernel code it has, including the way it deals with devfs,
for example, it does not look like it will be easy to fix.

plex86 has three outstanding bugs at the time of this writing: bug 54526, bug
29159 and bug 17388. I have the feeling that if anybody was going to get them
fixed, they would have done so by now.

qemu should fill plex86's role in the future.

I'll probably remove plex86 from the tree very shortly. If anybody feels
different, you're welcome to reopen plex86 bugs and fix them :-)