My Unofficial Guide to a Stable System World Update

[wolfden]

oh man, I don't know what to tell ya. I can't imagin trying to upgrade a version that old. 3.4 is plenty difficult.

I wish I could offer ya more insight, but I'm out of wisdom at the moment

[Fitzcarraldo]

No problem, your help has been great. Since the problems started I've been trawling the Net, and there are a couple more things I want to try before calling it a day. The access violation message for /etc/passwd intrigues me, so I want to have another go at that.

But I'm curious about something you wrote: "I can't imagine trying to upgrade a version that old". Are you referring to the kernel, or to the apps, or to both? I ask because I had previously upgraded a large proportion of the installed packages to their latest versions before starting your HowTo. As mentioned previously, I had the latest version of Compiz Fusion from Portage, the latest ATI drivers, the latest KDE 3.5.8, the latest GNOME 2.20, the latest versions of all the apps I use (OOo, Firefox, Thunderbird etc. etc.), and AIGLX was working (and was more stable than XGL with Compiz Fusion, I found). The kernel I had not touched: it was the original 3.4 Loop 2b kernel. But my installation was far from being what was originally installed from the 3.4 Loop 2b LiveDVD. So, by "old", are you referring specifically to the kernel?

[wolfden]

kernel upgrades are never an issue

It's taking the entire project to latest. All the software. If I install 3.3 today and then went to world update it, omg........

[Vashypooh]

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vash-laptop vash # emerge -upDN --world

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

Calculating world dependencies \
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "~x11-libs/compiz-bcop-9999".
(dependency required by "x11-plugins/compiz-fusion-plugins-threed-9999" [installed])



!!! Problem resolving dependencies for x11-plugins/compiz-fusion-plugins-threed
!!! Depgraph creation failed.
vash-laptop vash #                                     

Fresh install so far ive only emerged a few things off the mini cd. Any ideas? This thing is being a real pain in my butt lol.

[wolfden]

Your gonna have to follow the howto upgrade compiz thread on the forum as so much has changed in since 3.4 release. A world update right now is not fun period.

[Vashypooh]

Well is there going to be a new Spin out soon or? I loved Gentoo but for some reason I could never get IPW3945 working on my laptop, and with this I got everything i wanted. Was hoping this would be my distro

[wolfden]

why not just use it till you can get comfortable with portage before a world update??

a new spin is always in the works

[joebobfrank]

I'm having issues with this... when I enter emerge -e system || until emerge --resume --skipfirst; do emerge --resume --skipfirst; done I get:

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Calculating system dependencies /
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-apps/groff-1.19.2-r1" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-apps/groff-1.19.2-r2 (masked by: package.mask)
- sys-apps/groff-1.19.2-r1 (masked by: package.mask)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
(dependency required by "sys-apps/man-1.6f-r1" [ebuild])



!!! Problem resolving dependencies for sys-apps/man-pages
!!! Depgraph creation failed.
Calculating dependencies... done!
*** Resuming merge...
>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra-8.33.6 to /
 * ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run RMD160 ;-) ...              [ ok ]
 * ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run SHA1 ;-) ...                [ ok ]
 * ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run SHA256 ;-) ...              [ ok ]
 * ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run size ;-) ...                [ ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                      [ ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                     [ ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                    [ ok ]
 * checking ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run ;-) ...            [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
 * Unpacking Ati drivers ...                                              [ ok ]
 * Unpacking fglrx_sample_source.tgz...
 * Unpacking fglrx_panel_sources.tgz...
>>> Source unpacked.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra-8.33.6 ...
 * Building fgl_glxgears
gcc -o fgl_glxgears -Wall -g -D USE_GLU -I/usr/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lGL -lGLU -lX11 -lm fgl_glxgears.c
fgl_glxgears.c: In function ‘make_fbo’:
fgl_glxgears.c:690: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘glXGetProcAddressARB’ differ in signedness
fgl_glxgears.c:691: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘glXGetProcAddressARB’ differ in signedness
fgl_glxgears.c:692: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘glXGetProcAddressARB’ differ in signedness
fgl_glxgears.c:693: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘glXGetProcAddressARB’ differ in signedness
fgl_glxgears.c:694: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘glXGetProcAddressARB’ differ in signedness
fgl_glxgears.c:695: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘glXGetProcAddressARB’ differ in signedness
fgl_glxgears.c:696: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘glXGetProcAddressARB’ differ in signedness
fgl_glxgears.c:697: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘glXGetProcAddressARB’ differ in signedness
fgl_glxgears.c:698: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of ‘glXGetProcAddressARB’ differ in signedness
 * Building the QT fglx panel...
InfoPage.cpp: In member function ‘void InfoPage::Init()’:
InfoPage.cpp:15: warning: unused variable ‘ChipRevision’
InfoPage.cpp:17: warning: unused variable ‘ChipRevision1’
>>> Source compiled.
>>> Test phase [not enabled]: x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra-8.33.6

>>> Install ati-drivers-extra-8.33.6 into /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra-8.33.6/image/ category x11-apps
>>> Completed installing ati-drivers-extra-8.33.6 into /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra-8.33.6/image/



 * QA Notice: Pre-stripped files found:
 * /var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra-8.33.6/image/opt/ati/bin/fireglcontrol
strip: i586-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded -R .comment
   opt/ati/bin/fgl_glxgears
>>> Merging x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra-8.33.6 to /
--- /opt/
>>> /opt/ati/
>>> /opt/ati/bin/
>>> /opt/ati/bin/fireglcontrol
>>> /opt/ati/bin/fgl_glxgears
--- /usr/
--- /usr/share/
--- /usr/share/pixmaps/
>>> /usr/share/pixmaps/ati.xpm
--- /usr/share/applications/
>>> /usr/share/applications/fireglcontrol.desktop
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>> x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra-8.33.6 merged.
>>> Recording x11-apps/ati-drivers-extra in "world" favorites file...

>>> No packages selected for removal by clean
>>> Auto-cleaning packages...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.


[wolfden]

Read the error message it tells u exactly what is wrong
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Masked

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-apps/groff-1.19.2-r1" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-apps/groff-1.19.2-r2 (masked by: package.mask)
- sys-apps/groff-1.19.2-r1 (masked by: package.mask)

edit your package.mask

[Pollo_Loco]

Is this thread still valid given we are on 5.4 now? Sorry, had to ask as "world" command is deprecated.