Gentoo ‘emerge –deep –newuse –update world’ issues…

Many people tell me that they have issues when running a emerge world on Gentoo to keep their system up to date. I have long argued that the problems are simply because they don’t run the updates regularly enough, and if they were to run updates every week they wouldn’t have these problems.

Unfortunately I have fallen foul of my own advice and haven’t run updates in a couple of weeks. This is now resulting in the following error:

 * ERROR: gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.12.2-r1 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   46:  Called src_compile
 *             environment, line 3397:  Called gnome2_src_compile
 *             environment, line 2573:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *       emake || diefunc “$FUNCNAME” “$LINENO” “$?” “compile failure”
 *  The die message:
 *   compile failure
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
 * relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at ‘/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/evolution
 * -data-server-1.12.2-r1/temp/build.log’.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at ‘/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/
 * evolution-data-server-1.12.2-r1/temp/environment’.

When you hit errors like this there are a number of things that should and can easily be done which 99% of the time will fix the problem. The first is to actually check the logs! The number of times I read the Gentoo forums and people don’t post the true topmost build error is unbelievable. Read the error and read the logs:

 michaelfclarke@mikes-computer ~ $

 cat /var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.12.2-r1/temp/build.log \
 | grep -i error
 checking for library containing strerror… none required
  mode, hide preprocessor errors, passes: stubs skels common headers
  mode, hide preprocessor errors, passes: stubs skels common headers
 /bin/sh ../../libtool –tag=CC   –mode=compile x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../src -I../../src -I../../src/libical
 -I../../src/libical -I. -DPACKAGE_DATA_DIR=\”"/usr/share/evolution-data-server-1.12″\”
 -I/usr/include/db4.5  -O2 -pipe -MT icalerror.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/icalerror.Tpo -c
 -o icalerror.lo icalerror.c
 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../src -I../../src
 -I../../src/libical -I../../src/libical -I.
 -DPACKAGE_DATA_DIR=\”/usr/share/evolution-data-server-1.12\” -I/usr/include/db4.5
 -O2 -pipe -MT icalerror.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/icalerror.Tpo -c icalerror.c  -fPIC -DPIC
 -o .libs/icalerror.o
 mv -f .deps/icalerror.Tpo .deps/icalerror.Plo
 /bin/sh ../../libtool –tag=CC   –mode=link x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc  -O2 -pipe
 -version-info 0:0:0 -o libical-evolution.la   icalderivedparameter.lo
 icalderivedproperty.lo icalrestriction.lo icalderivedvalue.lo icalarray.lo icalattach.lo
 icalcomponent.lo icalenums.lo icalerror.lo icalmemory.lo icalmime.lo icalparameter.lo
 icalparser.lo icalproperty.lo icalrecur.lo icaltime.lo icaltz-util.lo icaltimezone.lo
 icalduration.lo icalperiod.lo icaltypes.lo icalvalue.lo pvl.lo sspm.lo vsnprintf.lo
 icallangbind.lo caldate.lo -lpthread
 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar cru .libs/libical-evolution.a .libs/icalderivedparameter.o
 .libs/icalderivedproperty.o .libs/icalrestriction.o .libs/icalderivedvalue.o
 .libs/icalarray.o .libs/icalattach.o .libs/icalcomponent.o .libs/icalenums.o
 .libs/icalerror.o .libs/icalmemory.o .libs/icalmime.o .libs/icalparameter.o
 .libs/icalparser.o .libs/icalproperty.o .libs/icalrecur.o .libs/icaltime.o
 .libs/icaltz-util.o .libs/icaltimezone.o .libs/icalduration.o .libs/icalperiod.o
 .libs/icaltypes.o .libs/icalvalue.o .libs/pvl.o .libs/sspm.o .libs/vsnprintf.o
 .libs/icallangbind.o .libs/caldate.o
 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I. -I.. -I../src -I../src
 -I../src/libical -I../src/libical -I/usr/include/db4.5  -O2 -pipe -MT errors.o
 -MD -MP -MF .deps/errors.Tpo -c -o errors.o errors.c
 mv -f .deps/errors.Tpo .deps/errors.Po
 /bin/sh ../libtool –tag=CC   –mode=link x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc  -O2 -pipe
 -o doesnothing access_components.o
 access_properties_and_parameters.o errors.o main.o parse_text.o
 ../src/libical/libical-evolution.la ../src/libicalss/libicalss-evolution.la
 ../src/libicalvcal/libicalvcal-evolution.la -lpthread
 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -pipe -o doesnothing access_components.o
 access_properties_and_parameters.o errors.o
 main.o parse_text.o  ../src/libical/.libs/libical-evolution.a
 ../src/libicalss/.libs/libicalss-evolution.a
 ../src/libicalvcal/.libs/libicalvcal-evolution.a -lpthread
  mode, hide preprocessor errors, passes: stubs skels common headers
  mode, hide preprocessor errors, passes: stubs skels common headers
 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -pipe -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-sign-compare
 -o .libs/create-account create-account.o
 -pthread -Wl,-R/usr/lib64/nspr  ../../libedataserver/.libs/libedataserver-1.2.so
 -L/usr/lib64/nspr -L/usr/lib64/lib
 /usr/lib64/libdb-4.5.so /usr/lib64/libsoup-2.2.so -L/usr/lib64 -lnsl
 /usr/lib64/libgnutls.so /usr/lib64/libtasn1.so
 /usr/lib64/libgcrypt.so /usr/lib64/libgpg-error.so /usr/lib64/libxml2.so -lz
 -lm /usr/lib64/libbonobo-2.so
 /usr/lib64/libbonobo-activation.so /usr/lib64/libORBitCosNaming-2.so
 /usr/lib64/libgconf-2.so /usr/lib64/libORBit-2.so /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so
 /usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so -lrt /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so
 -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -ldl -lpthread
 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -pipe -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-sign-compare
 -o .libs/soap-test soap-test.o -pthread -Wl,-R/usr/lib64/nspr  -L/usr/lib64
 ./.libs/libegroupwise-1.2.so -L/usr/lib64/nspr /usr/lib64/libsoup-2.2.so -lnsl
 /usr/lib64/libgnutls.so /usr/lib64/libtasn1.so /usr/lib64/libgcrypt.so
 /usr/lib64/libgpg-error.so /usr/lib64/libxml2.so -lz -lm /usr/lib64/libbonobo-2.so
 /usr/lib64/libbonobo-activation.so /usr/lib64/libORBitCosNaming-2.so
 /usr/lib64/libgconf-2.so /usr/lib64/libORBit-2.so /usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so
 /usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so -lrt /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so
 -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -ldl -lpthread
 make[4]: *** [create-account] Error 1
 make[4]: *** [soap-test] Error 1
 make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
 make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
 make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
 make: *** [all] Error 2
 * ERROR: gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.12.2-r1 failed.
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

 michaelfclarke@mikes-computer ~ $

Reading the above nothing stood out that much so I decided to do a grep for warning instead…

 michaelfclarke@mikes-computer ~ $
 cat /var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.12.2-r1/temp/build.log \
 |grep -i warning
 configure: WARNING: krb5 support disabled
 checking what warning flags to pass to the C compiler… -Wall -W missing-prototypes
 e-data-server-module.c:86: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
 e-data-server-module.c:89: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
 e-data-server-module.c:92: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
 broken-date-parser.c:125: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in signedness
 …
 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: warning: libgnutls.so.13,
 needed by /usr/lib64/libsoup-2.2.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link)

Ah! The last line of the output seemed to be the problem. My first idea was to simply create a symlink and see what happens:

  ln -s /usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.26 /usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.13

This failed to work. Instead I then tried to re-emerge libsoup. This worked and my original emerge then proceeded with no errors

>>> /usr/share/doc/evolution-data-server-1.12.2-r1/TODO.bz2
 * Installing GNOME 2 GConf schemas
 * Reloading GConf schemas …                                          [ ok ]
 * Updating desktop mime database …
 * Updating shared mime info database …
 * Updating icons cache …                                             [ ok ]
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache…
>>> gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.12.2-r1 merged.

>>> No packages selected for removal by clean

The upshot of all this is - keep your system up to date and remember to read the log files.

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Hello World!

Welcome to my new blog. Previously I was running a very small, and rather unsuccessful blog at http://users.aber.ac.uk/mfc5. However, in light of my adventures at Sun Microsystems, and the fact that I am currently applying for the position of Sun Microsystems Campus Ambassador at Aberystwyth University (which requires me to write a blog) I thought now would be a good time to start up again - properly.

I’ve tried to move a lot of my projects and stuff from my old website to this new one. Over time I hope to move my trac installation from my home server to this server so you can all enjoy the entertaining source code of MouthOS. I hear many of you ponder the name. The origion of the name is due to two reasons:

• I have acquired the nickname ‘The Mouth’ at work due to the large quantities of food that I am able to consume.

• MikeOS, as it was originally called, appears to already exist in 16bit format and is for teaching people how to write an operating system.

For most of my posts I expect there to be quite a bit of technical information on whole host of topics, from the Solars and Linux Kernels, and indeed the MouthOS Kernel, to Sun’s newest and latests products and technologies.

In general I hope this blog will be useful to many people technically and will help to make people more aware of Sun Microsystems and their technologies and products.

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