Bug 89903 – ufed 0.37 and 0.37-r1 fail to start

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Joël 2005-04-21 02:09:02 UTC]

The new versions of ufed, 0.37 and 0.37-r1, display the following message upon run:

/etc/make.profile is not a symlink

But it seems untrue:

joel # ls -l /etc/make.profile
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 48 Apr 12 10:54 /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0

I re-emerged ufed 0.36, and all is fine.

Have anyone else had this problem ?

[Comment 1 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2005-04-21 11:46:41 UTC]

Could you provide your emerge --info output, as well as the output of

echo `perl -w -e 'print readlink "/etc/make.profile"'`

and

emerge -pv perl

?

[Comment 2 Joël 2005-04-21 13:51:05 UTC]

Sure :-)

joel ~ $ echo `perl -w -e 'print readlink "/etc/make.profile"'`
../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0

joel ~ $ emerge -pv perl

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r4  +berkdb -debug +doc +gdbm +ithreads -perlsuid (-uclibc) 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

[Comment 3 Joël 2005-04-21 13:52:04 UTC]

Created attachment 56872 [details]
Output of "emerge info"

[Comment 4 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2005-04-21 15:29:31 UTC]

Created attachment 56875 [details, diff]
ufed-0.37-profilesymlink.patch

The output is as it should be, and I am not able to reproduce this bug with
your version of perl, and your profile. Also, your CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS are sure to
cause problems with some programs. Still, this might be an actual bug with
ufed. Could you see if this patch fixes it? (Just run "patch -i
ufed-0.37-profilesymlink.patch /usr/sbin/ufed") If so, I'll put this in -r2.

[Comment 5 Joël 2005-04-21 15:43:19 UTC]

Good news !

Your patch solves it !

[Comment 6 Harald van Dijk (RETIRED) 2005-04-21 15:55:43 UTC]

Okay, I added it to -r2. Thanks for the report.