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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 ...
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  1. 04-23-2005 #1
    FreeThinkerJim
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    Problems running emerge -u system

    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

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    ../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
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  2. 04-23-2005 #2
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    try:
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    emerge -uD world
    Could be a problem with deep dependencies.
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  3. 04-23-2005 #3
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    Agressive optimalisationflags (for example "-O3") in /etc/make.conf may also lead to insucsessfull builds. But try sdousleys method first.
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  4. 04-24-2005 #4
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    Thanks very much for the replies. I tried both your suggestions, but neither of them worked. Running emerge with -uD seemed to skip over the file package to do some other (gcc, binutils, many other) only to come back to it later and fail. Got any other suggestions?

    Thanks
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  5. 04-24-2005 #5
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    could you post your make.conf?
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  6. 04-24-2005 #6
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    Here's my make.conf. If it might help, I installed this system using a stage 3 from 2004.3:

    # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
    # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
    CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
    CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
    CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
    USE="gtk gnome alsa dvd truetype expat xml java ipv6 pda gstreamer
    -xinerama -kde -qt -oss"
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  7. 04-25-2005 #7
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    could you please post more of the error message (10 lines or so above/below what you allready posted) also please post the output of "emerge -vut system"
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  8. 04-25-2005 #8
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    Thanks for the help, but I've got this taken care of. It turns out this is a known bug in Gentoo. The problem was a faulty magic file in the source tarball.
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  9. 04-28-2005 #9
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    OFF TOPIC: you should add the CFLAG '-pipe ' to your cflags it makes the compiles go a bit faster
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