its becuase "emerge -U world" didn't remove the directory /var/db/pkg/gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.2.2
Steven Elling wrote:
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 13:44, SMS WebMaster wrote:
No I don't have gnome 2.2 (I am sure)
Well, you may not have gnome 2.2 installed but gnome-applets version 2.2.2 may of been left behind.
According to the following lines of output from your system it thinks gnome-applets 2.2.2 is installed:
['gnome-base/gnome-applets', '2.2.2', 'r0'] ['gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.2.2', 'gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.4.0']
Do an `emerge -p unmerge gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.2.2'. The output will probably look like the following:
These are the packages that I would unmerge:
gnome-base/gnome-applets selected: 2.2.2 protected: none omitted: 2.4.0
If the output does look like this, your system thinks gnome-applets version 2.2.2 is still installed. If so, remove the '-p' option to the command above to remove it.
If the output looks like the following, gnome-applets version 2.2.2 is definitely not installed and something else is amuck:
These are the packages that I would unmerge:
!!! Couldn't find match for gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.2.2
unmerge: No packages selected for removal.
Steven Elling wrote:
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 05:32, Sloan Poe wrote:
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 04:52, Mike Williams wrote:
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On Tuesday 14 October 2003 09:49, SMS WebMaster wrote:
After upgrading to gnome 2.4 now everytime I emerge any program I got at the end :
['gnome-base/gnome-applets', '2.2.2', 'r0'] ['gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.2.2', 'gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.4.0'] !!! COUNTER file is missing for gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.2.2 in /var/db. !!! Please run /usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.pl or remerge the package.
IF I run /usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.pl I got :
Grabbing db contents... Grabbing mtimes... fix-db: fatal: insufficient data for app-dicts/dictd-dicts-1.0
Remove this package's directory from /var/db/pkg to fix this, then start this script again. If everything worked correctly, you must remerge app-dicts/dictd-dicts-1.0 to not mess up any dependencies.
Any Help ? (nothing in google/gentoo.org)
Remove the directory, and gnome-applets-2.2.2, and any others that complain in the same way later. If you have them installed, install them again afterwards, otherwise your done.
I've been running into this too with LOTS of packages. It seems like it could take hours to get the whole mess fixed. It also worries me that this is all of a sudden happening, right after a recent portage update.
-sloan poe
From the looks of the output above the user has two version (2.2.2 and 2.4.0) of gnome-applets installed -- look above the line containing 'COUNTER'. I would suggest the older version(s) of gnome-applets in this case be remove and see if the errors go away. I had similar problems with baselayout and removing older versions took care of the problem.
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