Cannot emerge world.

[sequalit]

Whenever i run the command

[Hu]

You have packages installed which cannot be present on a system which also has packages that would be installed by emerge world. Please read A Portage Introduction in the Gentoo Handbook for an explanation of blockers. If you are still unsure how to proceed, post back and we can provide more detailed help.

[Urban Cowboy]

wouldn't that command install everything?

What are you trying to do with "emerge world"?
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[champ]

sequalit,

To clarify somewhat:

1. You really should not run just emerge world as the world keyword is designed for specifically for updating, instead run

[sequalit]

one question, wouldn't uninstalling a package such as device-mapper break my system?

I am using raid 0 with LVM2, and I was under the impression that device-mapper was necessary for it to work correctly.



Also, some packages i have on my system, the updates are masked, therefore emerge is not continuing with the rest of the update process and updating the programs that actually need it.

Is there any way to tell emerge to just ignore all blocked/masked things and to update what it can?

[sequalit]

well i just tried to unmerge the conflicting packages now im getting this

which tells me that this is a problem that cant be fixed? and im just left with a system that can't be securly updated?

thats what i get going with Sabayon instead of a straight gentoo ;p

[wolfden]

If you want Sabayon support - you should be posting on their forum. Also knowing the package manager and using portage properly would be a huge benefit.

[sequalit]

Ty Champ for the helpful information...

This is a question about Portage, not Sabayon... thats why I'm posting here... Oh a portage forum... where I can get help about portage to teach me more..... lol elitists make me laugh every time.

Ever since my first post I have been googling my ass off to try and figure out how to make portage just ignore the blocked packages and update what it can, and then ill figure out how to update the blocked packages later... but I havn't found anything useful.

So if anyone would like to help me, I would appreciate it! but if your going to be a condescending ass, please don't hit the submit button.

[aronparsons]

[sequalit]

[aronparsons]

Do you have the 'gentoolkit' package installed? Try running 'equery d x11-plugins/compiz-fusion-plugins-threed" to see what is pulling that package in and why its dependencies aren't available.

It looks like you have a live ebuild of Compiz Fusion installed. You can try removing it with 'emerge -C compiz-fusion' and removing its dependencies with 'emerge --depclean -a'. Be sure to look carefully at what packages it wants to remove as anything that is not a dependency of another package can get removed. I'm not familiar with Sabayon and the intricacies of its overlay.

[sequalit]

Thank you aronparsons!, that got me around that, i just uninstalled compiz, did some research and learned that I don't even use it, I'm using KWin.

but there seems to be more blocked package problems with my system, about 20 of them HAHA...

I was able to get most of them situated out, all except this one

[aronparsons]

[bunder]

[sequalit]

well I got past the baselayout problem, but seem to be running into problem after problem..

Thank you for your help aronparsons! I will pursue this a bit longer and see what comes up...

as far as i know, stable amd64.

bah, i have a Nvidia GeForce FX 5200... old pci card w00t, and none of the drivers from emerge worked, i couldnt even get the linux drivers from nvidia to cooperate, they kept having running into errors during install...

[aronparsons]

[aronparsons]

One last thing. Take a look at some of the Portage documentation starting with http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1 . Once you understand how it all works, problems like you just experienced will make a lot more sense and you should be able to work through them on your own.

[sequalit]

Ive read that page 5 times over

It would help if it actually had the application of the techniques they tell you to do..

Its like telling a pre-teenager how to drive but not showing them how to use the breaks

The driver wouldn't ever compile, yes i had 64bit drivers... but its a mute point until i try to vanilla gentoo again

I give up on emerge world... With Sabayon's way of overlaying software that isn't ment to be installed together is making me sick...

I solve one dependency issue to be faced with another one, I think ive been through 10 different issues now hah...

I'll just either stick with a system emerge which works... would that give needed security updates?

[aronparsons]

If all you want is security-related updates, check out 'glsa-check' from the gentoolkit package.

You should figure out what is causing the problems with running 'emerge -uDN world'. What you're experiencing is not normal and will cause many more problems in the future (that is, unless the Sabayon overlay is in a temporary screwed-up state which you can't control).

[sequalit]

from what ive read about Sabayon, its overlays are like that, they suck, you kinda have to wait for them to release another version and install from scratch again... no bueno lol...

thank you for all of your help aronparsons! im out for the night getting late!

[wolfden]

not true, install, world update, never reinstall again

[gerardo]

Sometimes you have to unmerge packages first to be able to emerge the newer versions:
eg: