On 13 October 2010 13:23, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga > <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm trying to unmerge some packages. They all fail like this: > > >> * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed >> * with exit value -1. >> * >> * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named >> * 'arora-0.11.0.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/www- >> * client/arora-0.11.0' directory. If necessary, manually remove the >> * environment.bz2 file and/or the ebuild file located in that directory. >> * >> * Removal of the environment.bz2 file is preferred since it may allow the >> * removal phases to execute successfully. The ebuild will be sourced and >> * the eclasses from the current portage tree will be used when necessary. > > As the error suggests, remove that file > (/var/db/pkg/www-client/arora-0.11.0/environment.bz2) and then try > again, it should hopefully work then. > > See this bug for more info: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211833
Nope, removing environment.bz2 doesn't make any difference. Also, note that it's not just this package. I have the same problem for at least 2 others. It seems a pandemic. :-)
