I get the problem when running: emerge --update --deep --newuse world Error: blackbox ed # emerge -uD world; Calculating world dependencies \ emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "sys-kernel/livecd-kernel". (dependency required by "media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.11" [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for dev-java/ant !!! Depgraph creation failed. I'm getting around this at the moment by doing: emerge -C dev-java/ant ; emerge --update --deep --newuse world ; emerge dev-java/ant I've tried solving this problem by running this: emerge --sync; emerge -uD world; Also done emerge portage as well and done the above two lines. I think (well, 99.9% sure) that this is running on stable. blackbox ed # emerge --info Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.12-r6 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba dlloader doc dri eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux lcms libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session simplexml slang soap sockets spell spl ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev userland_GNU vorbis x86 xml xml2 xmms xorg xsl xv zlib zlibi input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
blackbox ed # emerge -pv virtual/linux-sources These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r4 USE="-build -symlink" 40,472 kB Total size of downloads: 40,472 kB
Please attach emerge --pretend --debug output for the command that tries to pull in livecd-kernel.
Created attachment 94089 [details] Output of command requested Output from emerge --pretend --debug --update --deep --newuse world
Apparently it's being pulled in to fill the virtual/alsa dependency: Parent: ebuild / media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.11 merge Depstring: virtual/alsa >=media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.11 doc? ( >=app-doc/doxygen-1.2.6 ) sys-devel/automake sys-devel/autoconf sys-devel/libtool virtual/alsa >=media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.11 Candidates: ['sys-devel/libtool', '>=media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.11', 'sys-kernel/livecd-kernel', '>=app-doc/doxygen-1.2.6'] Do you have anything else to satisfy virtual/alsa? You can probably tweak /etc/portage/profile/virtuals and/or /etc/portage/profile/package.provided to work around this.
It said.... Candidates: ['sys-devel/libtool', '>=media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.11', 'sys-kernel/livecd-kernel', '>=app-doc/doxygen-1.2.6'] I'm not sure whether I follow what you suggested. I tried emerging the other three suggestions, and it still gives the same error: ebuild: media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.11 binpkg: None - Parent: ebuild / media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.11 merge Depstring: virtual/alsa >=media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.11 doc? ( >=app-doc/doxygen-1.2.6 ) sys-devel/automake sys-devel/autoconf sys-devel/libtool virtual/alsa >=media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.11 Candidates: ['sys-devel/libtool', '>=media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.11', 'sys-kernel/livecd-kernel', '>=app-doc/doxygen-1.2.6'] ebuild: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.22 binpkg: None ebuild: media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.11 binpkg: None / Parent: ebuild / media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.11 nomerge Depstring: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "sys-kernel/livecd-kernel". (dependency required by "media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.11" [ebuild]) !!! Problem resolving dependencies for dev-java/ant !!! Depgraph creation failed. ============================================================================== Zac Medico said: > Do you have anything else to satisfy virtual/alsa? You can probably tweak /etc/portage/profile/virtuals and/or /etc/portage/profile/package.provided to work around this. Can you give me any pointers please on how to go about this? Forgive my ignorance, but I'd guess that anything in the livecd build should be available as part of the kernel source that I should have?
You need one of these packages to satisfy the virtual/alsa dependency: media-sound/alsa-driver sys-kernel/ck-sources sys-kernel/gentoo-sources sys-kernel/git-sources sys-kernel/hardened-sources sys-kernel/hppa-sources sys-kernel/mips-sources sys-kernel/mm-sources sys-kernel/openblocks-sources sys-kernel/openvz-sources sys-kernel/rsbac-sources sys-kernel/sh-sources sys-kernel/suspend2-sources sys-kernel/systrace-sources sys-kernel/usermode-sources sys-kernel/vanilla-sources sys-kernel/vserver-sources sys-kernel/xbox-sources sys-kernel/xen-sources You can give a portage a hint about what package you'd want to satisfy that virtual via /etc/portage/profile/virtuals. The virtuals file is documented in `man portage`. Do you have any idea where that livecd-kernel is comming from? Apparently it doesn't exist in the portage tree. Do you have it installed? If so, you should uninstall it.
(In reply to comment #6) > You need one of these packages to satisfy the virtual/alsa dependency: > ... > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources ... > > You can give a portage a hint about what package you'd want to satisfy that > virtual via /etc/portage/profile/virtuals. The virtuals file is documented in > `man portage`. Ah, thanks. I wasn't sure what the difference between the two options were and what consequential impact one of the choices would have over another. > Do you have any idea where that livecd-kernel is comming from? Apparently it > doesn't exist in the portage tree. Do you have it installed? If so, you > should uninstall it. > I have emerged sys-kernel/gentoo-sources and that seems to have got rid of that issue. I can only think that this livecd-kernel came from the liveCD I used to install gentoo from. (Stage 3?? Perhaps from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/2006.0/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4 : "Using the LiveCD kernel You must use the kernel present on the LiveCD for the GRP/networkless install. This is merely a gentoo-sources kernel compiled by genkernel, Gentoo's automated compilation utility, and will give you a kernel that automatically detects and configures your hardware upon boot. Select LiveCD kernel and continue to the next screen. " ) I've run an emerge -C sys-kernel/livecd-kernel and now I get other warnings which I'm 99% sure aren't related... (for completeness, I've included them here) !!! Error: the <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 package conflicts with another package; !!! the two packages cannot be installed on the same system together. !!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers. I'll work on determining what the issue is on that. So I think that removing that kernel package has worked, but the only reason I think that I would have it is if I followed some documentation which told me to copy it across (or possible I missed a step after I was supposed to do it).
Apparently the installer cd in the only way to get that livecd-kernel package. This bug is a combination of bug 48195 with poor handling of old-style virtuals. Hopefully they'll make virtual/alsa into a new-style virtual soon... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48195 ***
*** Bug 144300 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
