Bug 81818 – stage2 build of xorg-x11 fails with "CATEGORY info missing from info chunk"

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO

[Description Michael Hill 2005-02-12 20:20:41 UTC]

I'm using the 2004.2 CD image to build a new system, starting with the stage1 tarball.  I'm at step 6.d in the x86 handbook.  "emerge system" works up through creating a tarball for xorg-x11:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 55218176 Feb 13 03:02 xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4.tbz2

But then it fails with the following error:

./var/
./var/lib/
./var/lib/xdm/
./var/lib/xdm/.keep
./var/lib/xkb/
./var/lib/xkb/README
!!! CATEGORY info missing from info chunk, aborting...

If I try to install the built tarball:

# emerge -K xorg-x11
!!! Invalid binary package: xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4.tbz2
Calculating dependencies
!!! There are no packages available to satisfy: "xorg-x11"
!!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.

I have tried this about eight times, sometimes removing /var/tmp/portage/* and/or the built package, but get the exact same failure every time.

# emerge info
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.26-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU      1133MHz
Python:               [2.3.3 (#1, Jul 18 2004, 01:59:11)]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.21-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache digest distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://shadowfax/portage"
USE="x86 X Xaw3d acpi alsa apache2 audiofile avi bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib calendar caps cdb cdr crypt cscope ctype cups curl dba dbase dbx dedicated dga doc dvd encode esd exif f77 fbcon fftw flac flatfile font-server foomaticdb freetds ftp gd gif ginac gmp gnome gnutls gpm gtk gtk2 hardened hardenedphp imagemagick imlib inifile jack jpeg kde libwww mad mbox memlimit mhash mikmod milter mime mmap mmx mng motif mozilla mpeg mpi ncurses nocd oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcmcia pcntl pcre pdflib perl php pic pie plotutils png posix ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl shared sharedmem simplexml sndfile sockets speex spell spl sse ssl svg sysvipc tcltk tcpd tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vhosts videos wavelan wmf xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xpm xsl xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2005-02-16 19:02:03 UTC]

You're going to have to explain what you're doing a bit better.
If you're using a 2004.2 packages CD, please try a 2004.3 or better.

[Comment 2 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2005-02-25 00:01:22 UTC]

Have to describe the problem if it is to be fixed.

[Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2007-01-11 11:01:23 UTC]

Closing due to old age