I tried to install graphviz. # emerge =media-gfx/graphviz-2.20.2 Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-gfx/graphviz-2.20.2 * graphviz-2.20.2.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking graphviz-2.20.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.20.2/work xargs: xargs.c:447: main: Assertion `bc_ctl.arg_max <= (131072-2048)' failed. /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 319: 16248 Done find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -type l -print0 16249 Aborted | ${XARGS} -0 chmod -fR a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w xargs: xargs.c:447: main: Assertion `bc_ctl.arg_max <= (131072-2048)' failed. /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.20.2/temp/environment: line 2783: 16250 Broken pipe find . -iname Makefile.am 16251 Aborted | xargs sed -i -e '/html_DATA/d' -e '/pdf_DATA/d' * * ERROR: media-gfx/graphviz-2.20.2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_unpack * environment, line 2787: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * find . -iname Makefile.am | xargs sed -i -e '/html_DATA/d' -e '/pdf_DATA/d' || die; * The die message: * (no error message) * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.20.2/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.20.2/temp/environment'. * * Messages for package media-gfx/graphviz-2.20.2: * * ERROR: media-gfx/graphviz-2.20.2 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_unpack * environment, line 2787: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * find . -iname Makefile.am | xargs sed -i -e '/html_DATA/d' -e '/pdf_DATA/d' || die; * The die message: * (no error message) * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.20.2/temp/build.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/graphviz-2.20.2/temp/environment'. * # emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc8 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/firefox/searchplugins /usr/share/X11/app-defaults /usr/share/mc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/ftp/gentoo/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X a52 aac alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bzip2 cgi cli cups dbus djvu dri dvd dvdread encode esd fame ffmpeg flac ftp gd gif glibc-omitfp gnutls gpm gtk2 iconv imagemagick imlib jpeg libg++ lzo midi mime mjpeg mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mplayer ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ntpl ogg openal opengl pcre pdf perl png posix python qt qt4 quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse sse2 theora truetype udev unicode vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xml xorg xscreensaver xvid" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES=" actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias proxy " ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge =media-gfx/graphviz-2.20.2
Also, I got the same messages when tried to install libXpm-3.5.7 xargs: xargs.c:447: main: Assertion `bc_ctl.arg_max <= (131072-2048)' failed. /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 319: 10136 Done find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -type l -print0
Please post your emerge --info. This does not sound like an ebuild problem..
"emerge --info" is in the description.
Can you try emerging sys-apps/findutils again? Your xargs looks broken...
Thanks a lot, it works now. Sorry for inconveniences.
Dupe of 255775
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 255775 ***
