Killed my coreutils -- HELP

Tuxenstein · Apprentice Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 155

In which case, and excuse what may sound like a very stupid question, but should I just go ahead and type in "no"?

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

At that point, neither answer should do anything harmful, though for the sake of expediency I would respond no.

Tuxenstein · Apprentice Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 155

Yay!

It worked! I can emerge packages again.

Thank you so much for all your help with this! I very much appreciate it!

Zach1188 · n00b Joined: 13 Oct 2006 Posts: 64

When I run emerge --update --deep world I get this error:

a.b. · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 2:30 pm Post subject:

Unmerge mktemp, it's included in coreutils now.

d135-1r43 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 129

But be sure not to reboot until coreutils is properly installed.

nixnut · Posted: Sat May 03, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject:

merged above three posts here
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Gentree · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 12:10 am Post subject:

Hi,

I may need to open a separate thread because I'm running ~x86, but I'm having the same problem. However the fix was not so easy.

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.11

I updated to coreutils-6.11 but something is still wanting to pull in mktemp and causeing the mutual blockage.

[blocks B ] >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5)
[blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.11)

bash-3.2#equery d mktemp
[ Searching for packages depending on mktemp... ]
app-admin/eselect-compiler-2.0.0_rc2-r1 (sys-apps/mktemp)
app-misc/ca-certificates-20070303-r1 (sys-apps/mktemp)
app-text/a2ps-4.13c-r5 (userland_GNU? sys-apps/mktemp)
app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 (sys-apps/mktemp)
dev-util/quilt-0.46 (sys-apps/mktemp)
sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.10-r5 (!build & !bootstrap? sys-apps/mktemp)
sys-apps/debianutils-2.28.2 (sys-apps/mktemp)

bash-3.2#emerge -p mktemp

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] sys-apps/mktemp-1.5
[blocks B ] >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5)
[blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.11)

can anyone untangle that one for me ?

TIA.
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ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

you probably need to update baselayout. Use emerge --tree to find out the chain of dependencies.
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Gentree · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 1:06 am Post subject:

thanks,

tree did not give me any more info. I tired updating baselayout but I have masked 2.0.0 since it seemed to cause quite a few problems.

This is one pkg I have learnt to be wary of.

were you indicating I need to update to 2.0.0 ?

thz again.
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nixnut · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 5:40 pm Post subject:

merged above three posts here.
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Gentree · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 9:48 pm Post subject:

Ahh found it!
I had an old gcc-3.3.5 in overlay that had mktemp as a dep. Edited the ebuild and all is fine.

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krenshala · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject:

I've got an x86 system thats was last updated quite a while ago (2.6.9 kernel) and I decided to update it and try and fix the Xorg problems I caused the last time I tried to update it. When I went to update Portage it gave me the mutual blocking mktemp/coreutils line.

Since I was not adverse to starting over from scratch I removed mktemp first (emerge --unmerge mktemp) but it still gave me the error about packages blocking each other. Not thinking about it, I foolishly unmerged coreutils next and, discovering my error set about doing a clean install.

I downloaded the 2008.0 beta 2 minimal CD .iso and used that to get into the system to back up my files (off topic, its nice to see it uses grub to select what you want to do on the disk

). Once my files were safely off the computer I used fdisk to wipe all partitions and start over from scratch (... just to be sure). The problem is, after downloading the 12 May 2008 portage files I still get the mutual blocking packages for mktemp and coreutils, which are preventing me from merging the latest version of portage.

I'm using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" since I don't need bleeding edge on this system, but instead want it to be nice and stable. Is unmerging mktemp the best way to get this to work? I haven't tried it since installing this time as I wanted to check here first ...

Thank you for any suggestions and help.
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krenshala · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:58 am Post subject:

Since I still haven't gotten to the point the system can even boot, I guess I'll go with the "easy" fix and unmerge mktemp. Its not like it can make my system worse at this point.

Thank you again for the help!
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Xamindar · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 4:29 am Post subject: Genious!

There was a block of coreutils by mktemp. So I do the natural thing and remove mktemp so I can upgrade coreutils. And guess what, removing mktemp also broke emerge so it doesn't work any more. Now who though this great idea up? Was there some procedure that I need to do first? Like installing a fresh installation of gentoo when these sorts of changes are made to gentoo?

This is what I got after removing mktemp. Is there any way to bring this system back from the dead?

alistair · Retired Dev Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 869

http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/html/default-linux/sh/mktemp-1.5.html

how would that do?

also Im surprised that removing mktemp broken portage. never did for me....
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desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

Xamindar · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 5:48 am Post subject:

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

Portage uses programs provided by sys-apps/coreutils.

Download a copy from tinderbox place it in $PKGDIR/All, if you do not create and retain them locally.
Unpack it under /, ignore the error about extra data past the end of the archive.
Run emerge -K sys-apps/coreutils.
Run emerge sys-apps/coreutils.

Larcen · Apprentice Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 174

...and I've got no mktemp on my system. No Networking, INIT stops just after setting the time, and thats that. Luckly! (I think) I still have my stage3 tarball handy. Any ideas where I should go from here?

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 4:26 am Post subject:

What did you do to the system just prior to the error? (before you rebooted that is) What is your "emerge --info" output?

Edit: You'll probably need to chroot into the system in order to provide the information and to fix the issue.

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

Access the system via chroot as though installing the system according to the handbook, update sys-app/coreutils, reboot into the installed system.

Merged the above two posts.