Broken system: no root account, read only user account

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

At least it is chugging along...

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

DONAHUE · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:49 am Post subject:

keep chugging we crossed in the mail

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auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

Actually, the emerge gave me an option of Ctrl -C to pause it while it was searching for something. I took the opportunity to implement
emerge --unmerge kde-base/libkdcraw:4
to avoid more surprises in the morning..

now, back to
emerge -1avuND --usepkgonly --keep-going world

DONAHUE · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:54 am Post subject:

if it will just chug we should finish within the hour
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auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

Somehow numbers do not add up, now I have only 393 packages to install... Anyhow,

Total: 392 packages (145 upgrades, 50 new, 6 in new slots, 191 reinstalls, 392 binaries), Size of downloads: 0 kB

!!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies
!!! triggered by backtracking:

kde-base/kdegraphics-meta:4
kde-base/kde-meta:4

!!! The following binary packages have been ignored due to non matching USE:

=app-editors/nano-2.3.2 -spell

NOTE: The --binpkg-respect-use=n option will prevent emerge
from ignoring these binary packages if possible.
Using --binpkg-respect-use=y will silence this warning.

!!! Problems have been detected with your world file
!!! Please run emaint --check world

!!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
kde-base/kde-meta

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

I guess I will go ahead with merging unless we should do aomething about kde-meta..

Do you think we are close to resurrecting this beast?

DONAHUE · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:57 am Post subject:

kde-base/kde-meta is a meta so comment makes sense

merge on
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auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

Sure.. we are on 30 out of 392...

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

Assuming this goes well, what are the next steps? I guess genkernel related stuff..

DONAHUE · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:08 am Post subject:

if genkernel ran you can start a second terminal
ls /mnt/gentoo/boot note the initramfs and kernel names
edit /mnt/gentoo/boot/grub/grub.conf to add the menu entry edit the dots to correct values

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

this is what I have :

ls /mnt/gentoo/boot
boot
config
grub
initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.34-gentoo-r6
kernel
kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.34-gentoo-r6
lost+found
System.map-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.34-gentoo-r6

here is my grub.conf

default 0
timeout 30
title=Gentoo Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.34-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda2
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.34-gentoo-r6

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

Looks like after 74 updatesmerge failed on this:

* ERROR: net-nds/openldap-2.4.35::gentoo failed (setup phase):
* (no error message)
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 93: Called pkg_setup
* environment, line 3626: Called enewgroup 'ldap' '439'
* environment, line 1667: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* groupadd -r ${opts} "${egroup}" || die
*
* If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=net-nds/openldap-2.4.35::gentoo'`,
* the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=net-nds/openldap-2.4.35::gentoo'`.
* The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-nds/openldap-2.4.35/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-nds/openldap-2.4.35/temp/environment'.
* Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/._portage_reinstall_.FX1DdL/pym'
* S: '/var/tmp/portage/net-nds/openldap-2.4.35/work/openldap-2.4.35'
* One or more packages are either masked or have missing dependencies:
*
* >=kde-base/kdelibs-4.8.3:4[-aqua] pulled in by:
* (kde-base/knotify-4.8.3::gentoo, installed)

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

OK, I think I will call it a day. If you have further suggestions, please, let me know, I will try them out tomorrow morning.

DONAHUE · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:59 am Post subject:

forgot to tell you eselect kernel list
eselect kernel set <latest version> 3.10.7 maybe
before genkernel all

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

emerge -1avuND kde-base/kdelibs kde-base/knotify kde-base/kde-meta

* IMPORTANT: 3 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
* Use eselect news to read news items.

* IMPORTANT: 2 config files in '/etc/portage' need updating.
* See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge
* man page to learn how to update config files.

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

Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/libraw-0.15:=" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- media-libs/libraw-0.15.4::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

(dependency required by "kde-base/libkdcraw-4.10.5-r1" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "kde-base/thumbnailers-4.10.5" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "kde-base/kdegraphics-meta-4.10.5" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "kde-base/kde-meta-4.10.5" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "kde-base/kde-meta" [argument])
For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

DONAHUE · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:39 pm Post subject:

DONAHUE · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:46 pm Post subject:

auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

OK, done with gentoo source.
Tried:
genkernel all
* Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.4.45.1
* Running with options: all

* Using genkernel.conf from /etc/genkernel.conf
* Sourcing arch-specific config.sh from /usr/share/genkernel/arch/x86_64/config.sh ..
* Sourcing arch-specific modules_load from /usr/share/genkernel/arch/x86_64/modules_load ..

Could not find source tarball /var/cache/genkernel/src/busybox-1.20.1.tar.bz2. Please refetch.

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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:52 pm Post subject:

auddoula,

It looks like genkernel is being picky about its busybox.

Does /var/cache/genkernel/src/busybox-1.20.1.tar.bz2 exist?
If not, fetch busybox-1.20.1.tar.bz2 and put it in place.

It could also be a permissions problem somewhere in the /var/cache/genkernel/src/ path or on the busybox-1.20.1.tar.bz2 file itself.

You could also roll your own kernel by following kernel-seeds.org
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auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:01 pm Post subject:

auddoula,

genkernel is looking for the older one, hence it won't see the new one.
You can try making a symlink from the old one to the new one. However, the build system might spot that. Checksums are a wonderful thing.

Fetch the old busybox by hand.
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auddoula · Guru Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 387

Can I just edit genkernel.conf and change
BUSYBOX_VER="1.20.1"
to
BUSYBOX_VER="1.20.2"

The system is already broken enough, I don't want to make it worse without understading what i am doing...