Bug 79405 – Attempted emerge system and got an error

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description frank m 2005-01-24 18:02:26 UTC]

According to the message it said to add the contents of the file to the bug report. Unfortunately I have no way to get the file out. No mount or ftp.
----------here goes the long version-----------
---   Start of output file   ------------------

**** gnuconfig-20040312-update.patch ****
=========
PATCH COMMAND: patch -p0 -g0 < /usr/portage/sys-devel/gnuconfig/files/gnuconfig-20040312-update.patch
=======
patching file /config.guess
patch: **** malformed patch at line 30: @` -242,10 +248,21 @@
=======
PATCH COMMAND: patch -p1 -g0 < /usr/portage/sys-devel/gnuconfig/files/gnuconfig-20040312-update.patch
=======
patching file config.guess
patch: *** malformed patch at line 30: @` -242,10 +248,21 @@
=======
PATCH COMMAND: patch -p2 -g0 < /usr/portage/sys-devel/gnuconfig/files/gnuconfig-20040312-update.patch
=======
missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option
The text leading up to this was:
-------------
|--- .config.guess.uclibc~)Fri Jun 11 09:29:33 2004
|+++ .config/guess    Fri Jun 11 09:44:02 2004
-------------
No file to patch. Skipping patch.
patch: **** malformed patch at line 30: @` -242,10 +248,21 @@

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.run emerge system
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Received error 

Expected Results:  
My guess it would have compiled some system objects


**** gnuconfig-20040312-update.patch ****
=========
PATCH COMMAND: patch -p0 -g0 <
/usr/portage/sys-devel/gnuconfig/files/gnuconfig-20040312-update.patch
=======
patching file /config.guess
patch: **** malformed patch at line 30: @` -242,10 +248,21 @@
=======
PATCH COMMAND: patch -p1 -g0 <
/usr/portage/sys-devel/gnuconfig/files/gnuconfig-20040312-update.patch
=======
patching file config.guess
patch: *** malformed patch at line 30: @` -242,10 +248,21 @@
=======
PATCH COMMAND: patch -p2 -g0 <
/usr/portage/sys-devel/gnuconfig/files/gnuconfig-20040312-update.patch
=======
missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option
The text leading up to this was:
-------------
|--- .config.guess.uclibc~)Fri Jun 11 09:29:33 2004
|+++ .config/guess    Fri Jun 11 09:44:02 2004
-------------
No file to patch. Skipping patch.
patch: **** malformed patch at line 30: @` -242,10 +248,21 @@

[Comment 1 Patrick Lauer 2005-01-25 01:37:58 UTC]

You might help us to locate that error by appending the output of emerge info and telling us on what you tried to emerge system, e.g. "When installing from the 2004.3 livecd,..." or "whentrying to upgrade my gentoo 1.0 install,..."

[Comment 2 frank m 2005-01-25 05:20:21 UTC]

Was trying a new install from 2004.3 minimal LiveCD (install-x86-minimal-2004.3-r1.iso) then used the stage2 for i686  (stage2-i686-2004.3.tar.bz2), I flipped no switches, did this plain vanilla... The machine is a Pentium Pro 200. I don't know about a "emerge info"? Anyway, I can't get anything off the machine - mount,ftp etc doesn't exist as far as I can tell. I had to hand type the info previously provided.

[Comment 3 Patrick Lauer 2005-01-25 06:24:52 UTC]

This looks quite weird. Since it tries to use /usr/portage/sys-devel/gnuconfig/files/... please run:
emerge sync
emerge portage
then retry emerge system

that should fix it - at least I hope so :-)

[Comment 4 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2005-01-29 16:12:05 UTC]

please reopen if it doesn't work.