grrrr....... emerge kde

[smonijhay1]

*****noob alert please forgive *******

I was hoping to not have to actually post. I've been trying to emerge kde for about a week now. I have gone through the forums and have tried every solution that I thought would work for me but nothing seems to be working....

Okay relevant stuff: if I don't provide enough info please let me know I will do my best to get what you need to help me out.

Main errors after typing emerge kde

1. mv: cannot stat '/var/tmp/portage/libungif-4.1.0.1b/temp/environment' : No such file or directory
--checked: there is a file called environment with root permissions
--can't figure out how to fix this issue

2. find: /var/tmp/portage/libungif-4.1.0.1b/work/libungif-4.1.0b1: Permission denied
--used the command found in the forums "namei -xm /see/above/path"
--permission output: drwxr-xr-x /
drwxr-xr-x var
drwxrwxrwt tmp
drwxr-xr-x portage
drwxr-xr-x libungif-4.1.0b1
drwx------ work
drwxrwxrwx libungif-4.1.0b1

3. /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh line 259: cd: /var/tmp/portage/libungif-4.1.0.1b/work/libungif-4.1.0b1: Permission denied

--assumed this was related to error #2

4. !!! ERROR: media-libs/libungif-4.1.0.1b failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 31, Exitcode 1
!!! (no error message)

--there were a lot of good suggestions for correcting this particular error, I ran into it when emerging xfree. Don't seem to be working for emerge kde.

I know here I should probably insert my emerge --info output but I'm not sure how to do that, if you could tell me how to do that I can provide that information

Other than that, the things that have worked for other people but not for me:

/etc/make.conf FEATURES=" -sandbox -usersandbox"
also (same file) USE="kde -gnome qt -gtk"

I do have a functional xfree, I did an emerge sync right before posting (trying to keep it to one per day )


Any suggestions are greatly appreciated, I did go through the bug reports too, either someone's problem was resolved with temporarily disabling sandbox, or their problem involved something after getting kde to emerge

Oh yeah: I have a typical Dell Optiplex GX 110. The video card in part of the motherboard and uses the Intel 810.

Thank you in advance

S

[steveb]

i don't know the solution for that problem, but in your case i would try:

[AlterEgo]

Emerge libungif and try again: it should be listed as a dependency but maybe it is not.

If that fails: you are not alone. Check for sugestions.

[smonijhay1]

Thanks steveb and AlterEgo,

I took your advice steveb and that got me one step closer to getting kde emerged ....

Now I have this new error (yay more errors ) that says

[AlterEgo]

smonijhay1,
that's not the error....

The error message itself is a couple of lines above the part you posted. Please post that part, so we can help you out (hopefully )

[smonijhay1]

oops! oh okay, yeah that makes sense! here is where the error flags begin!

[steveb]

this is still not enought! you need to post a way longer output.

cheers

SteveB

[smonijhay1]

Do you mean a log file or something like that? If so, which log file? The emerge.log file has every emerge I've done since I got gentoo up and running. I think I can truncate it to just the emerge kde part, but I want to know if that is what you need. Is there any other file that you will need to help me figure out what is going on?

Thanks a bunch

S

[steveb]

no. not the log file. you need to post more of the last lines of the emerge output.

cheers

SteveB

[smonijhay1]

okay, I really hope this is what you mean. this is what I could find. this is pretty much the whole semi-successful emerge that you helped me out with! you may want to scroll down to about emerge 33 or 34 of 72. That is where is cracked up and quit on me

[smonijhay1]

okay maybe this part will help too.

I tried to emerge the package that the kde emerge crashed on

here is what I get

[steveb]

the one post you posted is just the emerge.log. this is not usefull for this problem.

the other is just a error you get, because you added the version and revision number to your emerge. try something like this instead:

[smonijhay1]

on running

[smonijhay1]

I went through my /var/tmp/portage directory and deleted everything. That fixed the space error I was getting. I also re-emerged kde. It didn't complete successfully, stopping at the kdegames part. I was able to get the last 50+ lines of the emerge output as well. How much of the output do you need? I can't tell much from it, but it looked like the last 50 or so lines didn't have much relevant to an error, but I'll post a bunch of it anyway.

[smonijhay1]

ahh geez..... i think i have been defeated by kde every time I emerge a I get a new problem.


well do you have any recommendations on a good not so problematic desktop environment to install?


Thanks again

S
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[steveb]

the output of the emerge command looks to me like you emerged kdelibs without any problem. what error do you get when you emerge kdegames?

cheers

SteveB

[smonijhay1]

I think I finally got kde to work!! one very consistent error message that I kept getting was the .distcc error every time I emerged. It kept saying that it couldn't connect to host, then it would spit out this file that was nested in the portage/.distcc/lock directory. I deleted all the files in there. Then I did an emerge sync, then I did a

[Rainmaker]

just a follow-up: don't make a habit of emerging programs without sandbox... It can really screw up your system...
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