On Thursday 5 September 2024 08:36:46 BST Dale wrote:

Dale wrote:

Howdy,

I don't do emerge -e world very often but this is weird. This is the complaint emerge spits out:

!!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies
!!! triggered by backtracking:

x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers:0
x11-base/xorg-drivers:0
x11-base/xorg-server:0
x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput:0
xfce-base/xfce4-settings:0
xfce-base/xfce4-meta:0
x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa:0
x11-misc/sddm:0
kde-plasma/plasma-meta:6

I checked with equery, they all in the tree, installed even. What is emerge trying to tell me? I also get this which may or may not be
related.

!!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
app-backup/mkstage4 kde-plasma/plasma-meta
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:6.9.10 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:6.9.4 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa
xfce-base/xfce4-meta

I get the gentoo-sources and mkstage4. It always complains about
those. The others tho, what's emerge fussing about?

Ideas? I emerge something weird to cause that? Is emerge going wonky
over nothing?

Dale

:-) :-)

The solution to this came after emerge world finished. I did some
checking to see what packages it skipped. It turns out that several
packages were skipped. I have buildpkg set so all I had to do is look
for a package with no binary available using emerge -aek world. I
deleted all old binaries to make certain none that may be bad were used
given my bad memory stick problem. Anyway, when I was going through
those, I realized what emerge was telling me. I usually mask higher
versions of gentoo-sources than what I want to keep. I remove the mask
when I want to upgrade then reset. Either I forgot, very likely, or mistakenly masked all versions of gentoo-sources. That made emerge to
have missing dependencies for a kernel. That meant some packages that require that had to be skipped.

So, don't mask all versions of a kernel unless you want to have
problems. I might add, I suspect that would affect updates as well as
emerge -e world.

Now when I do a emerge -aek world, I see that binaries are available for
all packages and they should be good ones. That also means all packages
have been installed with good memory. No failures either.

Oh, I kinda kept a eye on memory usage when qtwebengine was compiling.
It seems emerge wants 32GBs of space available when building that
monster. As I was watching, at one point it reached 27GBs of memory
usage. Now I was logged into KDE and with the little I have running, Seamonkey mostly, it uses about 3GBs. So, if one wants to override that requirement, it needs about 24 or 25GBs of space available. If your
mobo only has 24GBs or less, I wouldn't risk it.

Allow 2G-3G of RAM per thread, assuming you have set MAKEOPTS to take
advantage of all your cores and you do not use swap. If you don't have enough RAM for large packages then a cheaper solution is to set a lower make --jobs threshold:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env

Odds are, even running
with no GUI at all and nothing else using memory, it will be a tight fit
at the least. With my current 32GB stick, I had to create and enable
some swap. I wonder, why don't they break that thing into two pieces or something???? That's massive.

You can blame Google, what with their Chrome browser built to replace your browser, online authentication mechanism, mail client, file manager, video player, desktop, etc., and if they had a say in this, even your OS.

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