Problems running emerge -u system Gentoo

FreeThinkerJim · 04-23-2005, 03:06 AM

As soon as I heard that Gentoo 2005.0 was out, I did an emerge -u system and walked away. When I came back, I found, much to my dismay, that it failed about 41 packages in, on a package named file-4.12 with this error

Code:

../src/file -C -m magic
WARNING: type lestring16 >0 Description: %15.15s invalid
lt-file: could not find any magic files!
make[2]: *** [magic.mgc] Error 255
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/file-4.12/work/file-4.12/magic'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/file-4.12/work/file-4.12'
make: *** [all] Error 2

As I sat there scratching my head, I wondered, What the hell is a magic file?

Thanks in advance

bulliver · 04-24-2005, 02:28 PM

Try running:

Code:

$ export MAGIC=/usr/share/misc/file/magic

Then retry the emerge ('emerge --resume' if you haven't emerged anything since the failure)

You did update your /etc/make.profile symlink right?

FreeThinkerJim · 04-24-2005, 03:31 PM

The strange thing is the path you gave me doesn't exist on my system, but I did find a file called magic in /usr/share/misc/file, so I set my MAGIC to /usr/share/misc/file/magic, but that didn't work. As far as I know, I updated the make.profile link right--I is linked to a directory named ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0. If I cd into /etc/make.profile, it gives me 3 subdirectories: 2.4, packages, and parent. This is correct, isn't it? The merge failed both before and after I updated this link (I was told to update it when I upgraded to portage) So, what's going on here?

Thanks a lot for the help.

bulliver · 04-24-2005, 08:06 PM

Quote:

The strange thing is the path you gave me doesn't exist on my system, but I did find a file called magic in /usr/share/misc/file

Well, that's exactly the path I gave you, right? The 'magic' file will be there from the previous version of 'file' you have installed.

Quote:

so I set my MAGIC to /usr/share/misc/file/magic, but that didn't work.

That advice was just a shot in the dark I gleamed from a quick google of your error message. It looks like you have found a known bug. There are a few ideas for getting around it if you read through the comments here:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73786

I would suggest an 'emerge sync' if you have not done so recently, as the bug is marked resolved.

Quote:

As far as I know, I updated the make.profile link right--I is linked to a directory named ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0. If I cd into /etc/make.profile, it gives me 3 subdirectories: 2.4, packages, and parent. This is correct, isn't it?

Yeah, that's right....

FreeThinkerJim · 04-24-2005, 11:36 PM

I've got good news--the bug report helped out, and I've successfully updated my system to 2005.0. Wow what a mess that was. Turns out there's a bad file in the file-4.12 source tarball. Thank you so much, bulliver for helping me out!