Bug 710618 – sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20200508_p20200508 pre-merge check fails with /boot not mounted

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Till Schäfer 2020-02-23 21:26:15 UTC]

When boot is not mounted, merging =sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20191115_p20200209 fails with the following error message:

>>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20191115_p20200209
 * Your boot partition is not mounted at /boot.
 * Please mount it and retry.
 * ERROR: sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20191115_p20200209::gentoo failed (pretend phase):
 *   /boot not mounted
 * 
 * Call stack:
 *                                   ebuild.sh, line 125:  Called pkg_pretend
 *   intel-microcode-20191115_p20200209.ebuild, line  50:  Called mount-boot_pkg_pretend
 *                           mount-boot.eclass, line  87:  Called mount-boot_check_status
 *                           mount-boot.eclass, line  72:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *              die "/boot not mounted"
 * 
 * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20191115_p20200209::gentoo'`,
 * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20191115_p20200209::gentoo'`.
 * The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20191115_p20200209/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20191115_p20200209/temp/die.env'.
 * Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20191115_p20200209/homedir'
 * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20191115_p20200209/work'



fstabe entry: 
/dev/sda1                       /boot           ext2            noauto,noatime          1 2




Reproducible: Always




# emerge --info sys-firmware/intel-microcode 
Portage 2.3.84 (python 3.6.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma, gcc-9.2.0, glibc-2.29-r7, 5.4.15-gentoo x86_64)
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                         System Settings
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System uname: Linux-5.4.15-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T8300_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.6
KiB Mem:     4017200 total,    972844 free
KiB Swap:    6291452 total,   5727740 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 20:07:08 +0000
Head commit of repository gentoo: b6f5de47b6090f9a7eb65d63964e937a7a6d6dea

sh bash 4.4_p23-r1
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.32 p2) 2.32.0
app-shells/bash:          4.4_p23-r1::gentoo
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0-r4::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.30.1::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.17::gentoo, 3.6.9::gentoo, 3.7.5-r1::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.14.6::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.29.2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.6-r1::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.42.1::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.13::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.16.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.32-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            9.2.0-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     2.2::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r6::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.2.1-r4::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.19::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.29-r7::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: git
    sync-uri: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git
    priority: -1000
    sync-git-verify-commit-signature: true

shared_overlay
    location: /opt/conf/common/var/db/repos/shared_overlay
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 100

local_overlay
    location: /var/db/repos/local_overlay
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 200

Installed sets: @system
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ftree-vectorize -ggdb"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.6/conf"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/99-autounmask /etc/portage/package.unmask/99-autounmask /etc/portage/package.use/99-autounmask /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="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ftree-vectorize -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y --autounmask=y --autounmask-write --autounmask-continue --jobs=2 --load-average=2 --backtrack=100"
ENV_UNSET="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs compressdebug config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch parallel-install pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign splitdebug strict strict-keepdir unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/var/cache/binpkgs"
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 --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi activities alsa amd64 apng bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding brotli bzip2 cairo cdaudio cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr chm cli consolekit crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dell djvu dnssec dri dri3 dts dvd dvdr emboss encode epub evdev exif ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif glib gpg gpm gstreamer gtk gzip iconv icu id3tag idn ieee1394 imagemagick inotify ipv6 irc jpeg jpeg2k kde kipi kwallet lame lcms ldap libnotify libsamplerate libtirpc lvm lzma mad matroska mmx mmxext mng mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mtp multilib musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl ntp ogg opengl openmp opus otr pam pango pcre pdf phonon plasma pm-utils png policykit ppds pulseaudio qml qt5 quicktime rar readline real rss sdl seccomp semantic-desktop spell split-usr sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg taglib tcpd theora threads thumbnail tiff truetype twolame udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l v4l2 vaapi vcd vim-syntax visualization vorbis vpx wavpack widgets wifi wma wmf wxwidgets x264 x265 xattr xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xv xvid xvidv xvmc xz zlib" ABI_X86="64" ADA_TARGET="gnat_2018" 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="karbon sheets words" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock greis isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php7-2" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres10 postgres11" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby24 ruby25" 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:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

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                        Package Settings
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sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20191115_p20200209::gentoo was built with the following:
USE="hostonly initramfs split-ucode -vanilla" ABI_X86="(64)"

[Comment 1 Till Schäfer 2020-05-12 11:02:02 UTC]

still valid for sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20200508_p20200508

[Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) 2020-05-12 13:10:25 UTC]

It's not a bug of this package.
It's a feature of the new mount-boot eclass, see https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2d90570e81469bf75b2d4a4275151e282632c18e. However, that functionality was removed because it didn't really work in latest portage anymore.

tl;dr
If you really want to do that, create your own wrapper which will mount and unmount /boot before/after calling emerge.

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