Bug 926359

Summary:	sys-boot/grub-2.12-r2 fails to emerge on my laptop
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Karl Hakimian <hyedad>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mike Gilbert <floppym>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	base-system, hyedad
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	build.log emerge --info environment file from emerge

Description Karl Hakimian 2024-03-07 14:21:26 UTC

The emerge fails complaining of missing automake-1.15. While the emerge works on other systems configured the same way, they do not have automake-1.15 either. I have not yet figured out why it is looking for it on this machine.

I tried emerge -e grubk to see if anything on the system needed to be fixed and everything up until grub emerged fine and grub still failed complaining of missing automake-1.15

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge grub
Actual Results:  
Emerge fails. build.log will be attached.

Expected Results:  
latest version of grub installed

I tried adding a automake-1.15 binary to my path, that did not change the error.

Comment 1 Karl Hakimian 2024-03-07 14:21:54 UTC

Created attachment 886903 [details]
build.log

build.log file from failed emerge

Comment 2 Karl Hakimian 2024-03-07 14:22:29 UTC

Created attachment 886904 [details]
emerge --info

emerge --info on system with the issue

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2024-03-07 14:24:26 UTC

Are you setting GRUB_AUTORECONF or GRUB_BOOTSTRAP or GRUB_AUTOGEN?

Comment 4 Karl Hakimian 2024-03-07 14:44:19 UTC

Not purposefully, where would I check?

Comment 5 Sam James archtester

2024-03-07 14:48:21 UTC

Could you upload the environment file? It's in the temp directory next to the build log.

Comment 6 Karl Hakimian 2024-03-07 14:50:29 UTC

Created attachment 886905 [details]
environment file from emerge

Requested environment file from

/var/tmp/portage/sys-boot/grub-2.12-r2/temp/environment

Comment 7 Karl Hakimian 2024-03-07 14:51:08 UTC

Looks like GRUB_AUTOGEN is set to 1. Any idea where that is happening?

Comment 8 Sam James archtester

2024-03-07 14:55:01 UTC

(In reply to Karl Hakimian from comment #7)
> Looks like GRUB_AUTOGEN is set to 1. Any idea where that is happening?

env | grep -i GRUB_AUTOGEN
grep -rsin GRUB_AUTOGEN /etc/portage

?

Comment 9 Karl Hakimian 2024-03-07 15:00:49 UTC

That seems to be it. There was a file created Septermber 2022. This was around the time I installed the laptop. Must have been something I added to fix some other problem, but I have no memory of the problem or the fix.

I've removed it and now things are emereging.

Thanks, this was driving me crazy.