emerge xfree FAILS !!! HELP

Guest · Posted: Tue May 21, 2002 4:41 pm Post subject: emerge xfree FAILS !!! HELP

emerge xfree fails!

I tried twice (2+ hours to compile each time) and it fails at the same point every time.

Guest

I'm still stuck. I've tried 2 more times. Same result every time.

Are there any suggestions?????

Please HELP!!!!

Guest · Posted: Wed May 22, 2002 5:43 am Post subject: STILL NO X !!!! ARRRRRRGGGGGG

I've emerged 5 more times (literal !!!!) still fails at the same point.

I looked up the message "Argument list too large" in google and was lead to a recompile of the kernel after changing the source (increase MAX_ARG_PAGES from 32 to 64.

Did that. Still the same error.

I'm out of ideas. ANYBODY PLEASE HELP, what should I try next?

What kind of debugs or lists should I try to do?

I tried emerge -d but got no other error messages that I could see.

Should I give up?

Guest

OK here is what has happened next.

When the emerge xfree fails, I cd to '/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r9/work/xc/lib/Xft

I then issue "make install" and it fails with the same "Argument list too long" message.

Drawing at straws here - So I decide to update bash (Ive previously recompiled my kernel - see last post)

After updating bash I reboot. Then I try the emerge again. It fails again.

I go back to '/var/tmp/....' and I issue the "make install" it doesnt fail!!

HMMMMM. After updating bash the make install does not fail.

To try it out I cd to 'var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r9/work/xc/' and I issue make, and 90 minutes later I issue make install. NO ERROR!!!!

I then issue make install.doc. NO ERROR!!!

So now with the recompiled BASH. I can manually compile xfree. But it is still not correct as I look at the .emerge script and it does a lot of stuff (copies and links and other stuff).

So what next? Why does a manual make/make install work (with the xfree that emerge downloads), but the make/make install issued from emerge still fail?

So next I emerge portage (I think that that is where emerge itself lives) to recompile it.

I have re-booted, and I am in process of emerge xfree again. I'll know in about 90 minutes if it works or fails.

In the meantime. PLEASE give me some other suggestions on what I should try!!!!!!!!!

Guest · Posted: Wed May 22, 2002 6:39 pm Post subject: I give up

It failed again.

I give up.

id10t · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 May 2002 Posts: 100

You could maybe look at the build scripts and see if it is doing any copying or moving there. If so, it may be using a wildcard, which could create the too long arg list. You could maybe get around it by having it copy/move less at a time, or maybe doing it with some type of iteration thru the list of files to be copied/moved.
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Guest

I'm back again.

I gave up. But I thought about all the time I had invested (several days now) and I decided to try once again.

This time I decided to start from scratch. So I fdisk'd my drive and started again with the gentoo boot disk that I burned.

Something must have gone wrong with my first installation. It's very likely I choose some strange kernel option that caused all of my problems. But I sure don't know what it was.

Well, this time after the initial load and bootstrap, and emerge of the system, I am able to emerge xfree.

So now I'm off to bed while my laptop chugs along with a big emerge of gdm gnome mozilla evolution gimp cups gimp-print-cups java...

If I wake up with an error message I'm frisbee'n the gentoo disk and going back to the duck.

I hope that's not the case because I selected gentoo after the latest 8.2 version of the duck trashed my gnome desktop.

ladybug · Guest

The problem is due to broken fileutils-4.1.8-r2.ebuild when compiled with USE="acl" flag. Temporary workaround is to disable -acl flag. This problem also breaks db package as well and many others ebuilds using long argument to the 'cp' command. Could someone please file a bug report - I am not registered with the site.[/b]

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

The gentoo bugzilla is open for all.
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esherrouse · Posted: Sun May 26, 2002 8:21 pm Post subject: Similar problem...

This is not so much a response but a side question.
I am having a similar issue, or at least I think I am.
You can see the details at :
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=3175&highlight=xfce
I have not been able to install Xfree no matter how many times I attempt to Emerge it.
It seems to drop out with ./exports/lib/libGLU.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)
After this line there are a series of undefined references.
And then finally failure etc.

Any thoughts?
I have yet to rebuild from scratch as I was hoping to not have to do that, but see that seemed to have worked for some.

Let me know if anyone has any suggestions.

Thanks

Esh