I applied the GLSA "glsa-check -f 200411-15" The following updates have been emerged: sys-apps/groff-1.19.1-r2 (1.18.1-r4) dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7d-r2 (0.9.7c-r1) but the merging of "openssl-0.9.7d-r2 to /" failed. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Everything went fine up to this point: gzip: /var/tmp/portage/openssl-0.9.7d-r2/image/usr/share/man/man7/Modes: No such file or directory gzipping man page: of gzip: of: No such file or directory gzipping man page: DES.7 gzip: DES.7: No such file or directory prepallstrip: strip: strip: usr/bin/openssl usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 making executable: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 making executable: /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/openssl-0.9.7d-r2/image/ >>> Merging dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7d-r2 to / [...] File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2695, in merge return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6670, in merge return self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild,cleanup=cleanup) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6297, in treewalk if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,"",cfgfiledict,mymtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6536, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6536, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6536, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6536, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6551, in mergeme elif stat.S_ISREG(mydmode) or (stat.S_ISLNK(mydmode) and stat.S_ISREG(os.stat(mydest)[stat.ST_MODE])): OSError: [Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links: '/usr/share/man/man3/EVP_BytesToKey.3.gz' Expected Results: It should have successfully merged the openssl package. BTW: I have come to the conclusion, that this problem relies in a faulty installation of the previous openssl package, as I found this on google groups: [cut here] From: levitte@stacken.kth.se (Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker) Newsgroups: mailing.openssl.dev Subject: Re: Too many levels of symbolic links Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 03:45:19 +0800 (CST) Organization: NCTU CSIE FreeBSD Server Lines: 39 Sender: nobody@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw Message-ID: <cbpsgf$384$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: freebsd.csie.nctu.edu.tw X-Trace: FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw 1088451919 3333 140.113.17.209 (28 Jun 2004 19:45:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:45:19 +0000 (UTC) In message <OF306C1389.C87A349A-ON86256EC1.006057DC-86256EC1.00617933@MBSBooks.com> on Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:45:57 -0500, BTrout@mbsbooks.com said: BTrout> I get the following with 9.7.d and 9.7e snap shot for 062804 BTrout> ( I am using AIX 4.3 and gcc ) BTrout> BTrout> installing man3/ERR_put_error.3 BTrout> ERR_add_error_data.3 => ERR_put_error.3 BTrout> installing man3/ERR_remove_state.3 BTrout> installing man3/EVP_BytesToKey.3 BTrout> Too many levels of symbolic links BTrout> /bin/sh: /usr/local/ssl/man/man3/EVP_BytesToKey.3: cannot create BTrout> make: The error code from the last command is 1. Do the following: rm -rf /usr/local/ssl/man; make install The error is due to an earlier installation (0.9.7c or lower) that has created faulty symbolic links. The only way to fix it is to remove the links that are in the way, and since you're rebuilding all manuals anyway, you can remove the whole OpenSSL manual directory. [cut here] Can this problem be corrected by the portage team or shall I fix it myself and rerun the merge? bash-2.05b# emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.4.26-gentoo-r13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r13 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.4.3-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" USE="x86 X acl apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde ldap libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype xml xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de"
>Can this problem be corrected by the portage team or shall I fix it myself and rerun the merge? The latter should do it. Daniel: Don't know, if you want to do something about that.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68419 ***
