Firefox won't emerge ...

Anthony.Youngman · External Since: Jun 20, 2007 Posts: 6

How do I manage to get a successful emerge?

It bombs because of a missing XML::Parser, which seems to be a known
problem - when I created a bug-report it was closed within minutes as
a duplicate of a much earlier bug. That's all very well, but not much
help to me when the problem has clearly been there for weeks - I did
a

emerge --sync
emerge mozilla-firefox

twice about a week apart and both failed ...

btw, I use KDE, and have -gnome (or whatever it is) in my use flags -
the earlier bug was something to do with gnome.

Cheers,
Wol

Anthony.Youngman · External Since: Jun 20, 2007 Posts: 6

On Jun 20, 5:34 pm, "Nuno J. Silva" <nuno....DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:51:11 -0700
>
>
>
>
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> Anthony.Young....DeleteThis@ECA-International.com wrote:
> > How do I manage to get a successful emerge?
>
> > It bombs because of a missing XML::Parser, which seems to be a known
> > problem - when I created a bug-report it was closed within minutes as
> > a duplicate of a much earlier bug. That's all very well, but not much
> > help to me when the problem has clearly been there for weeks - I did
> > a
>
> > emerge --sync
> > emerge mozilla-firefox
>
> > twice about a week apart and both failed ...
>
> > btw, I use KDE, and have -gnome (or whatever it is) in my use flags -
> > the earlier bug was something to do with gnome.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Wol
>
> Just a shoot in the dark, try to re-emerge dev-perl/XML-Parser. If that
> doesn't work, run the commands Wim gave you.
>
I can't re-emerge something I hadn't emerged Smile

Seriously, why should
I need to emerge something that ought to be a dependency?

Anyways, done that, and it now fails with "no error message" !!!

Can anyone recommend a decent browser other than firefox or konq?

Cheers,
Wol

Anthony.Youngman · External Since: Jun 20, 2007 Posts: 6

On Jun 21, 9:36 am, Wim Cossement <a....TakeThisOut@b.c> wrote:
> Anthony.Young....TakeThisOut@ECA-International.com wrote:
> > On Jun 20, 5:34 pm, "Nuno J. Silva" <nuno....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:51:11 -0700
>
> >> Anthony.Young....TakeThisOut@ECA-International.com wrote:
> >>> How do I manage to get a successful emerge?
> >>> It bombs because of a missing XML::Parser, which seems to be a known
> >>> problem - when I created a bug-report it was closed within minutes as
> >>> a duplicate of a much earlier bug. That's all very well, but not much
> >>> help to me when the problem has clearly been there for weeks - I did
> >>> a
> >>> emerge --sync
> >>> emerge mozilla-firefox
> >>> twice about a week apart and both failed ...
> >>> btw, I use KDE, and have -gnome (or whatever it is) in my use flags -
> >>> the earlier bug was something to do with gnome.
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Wol
> >> Just a shoot in the dark, try to re-emerge dev-perl/XML-Parser. If that
> >> doesn't work, run the commands Wim gave you.
>
> > I can't re-emerge something I hadn't emerged Smile

Seriously, why should
> > I need to emerge something that ought to be a dependency?
>
> > Anyways, done that, and it now fails with "no error message" !!!
>
> > Can anyone recommend a decent browser other than firefox or konq?
>
> Opera is very good too, but it's a binary release...- Hide quoted text -
>
I'll have to try it - my brother likes it. Actually, I'm after a
browser so's I can test Apache, and I'm having a little fun there too
- loads of information on "how to upgrade apache", but nothing on how
to install it. Is it Apache2 by default now? I emerge Apache and get
the test page, but don't know how to check which version it is. I want
to install a wiki, so I need to enable php, and I'm getting
conflicting messages from the documentation ...

Cheers,
Wol

Wim Cossement · External Since: Mar 21, 2007 Posts: 20

Anthony.Youngman DeleteThis @ECA-International.com wrote:
> On Jun 20, 5:34 pm, "Nuno J. Silva" <nuno... DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:51:11 -0700
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Anthony.Young... DeleteThis @ECA-International.com wrote:
>>> How do I manage to get a successful emerge?
>>> It bombs because of a missing XML::Parser, which seems to be a known
>>> problem - when I created a bug-report it was closed within minutes as
>>> a duplicate of a much earlier bug. That's all very well, but not much
>>> help to me when the problem has clearly been there for weeks - I did
>>> a
>>> emerge --sync
>>> emerge mozilla-firefox
>>> twice about a week apart and both failed ...
>>> btw, I use KDE, and have -gnome (or whatever it is) in my use flags -
>>> the earlier bug was something to do with gnome.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Wol
>> Just a shoot in the dark, try to re-emerge dev-perl/XML-Parser. If that
>> doesn't work, run the commands Wim gave you.
>>
> I can't re-emerge something I hadn't emerged Smile

Seriously, why should
> I need to emerge something that ought to be a dependency?
>
> Anyways, done that, and it now fails with "no error message" !!!
>
> Can anyone recommend a decent browser other than firefox or konq?

Opera is very good too, but it's a binary release...

not · External Since: Feb 24, 2007 Posts: 8

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:23:08 -0700, Anthony.Youngman wrote:
>> > How do I manage to get a successful emerge?
>>
>> > It bombs because of a missing XML::Parser, which seems to be a known
>> > problem - when I created a bug-report it was closed within minutes as
>> > a duplicate of a much earlier bug. That's all very well, but not much
>> > help to me when the problem has clearly been there for weeks - I did
>> > a
>>
>> > emerge --sync
>> > emerge mozilla-firefox

Bug is http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182384
Did you bother to read the bug yours was a dupe of?

>> Just a shoot in the dark, try to re-emerge dev-perl/XML-Parser. If that
>> doesn't work, run the commands Wim gave you.

Indeed, you need to fix your perl installation. When Portage told you to
run perl-cleaner, it meant it, you ignored it.
Emerging dev-perl/XML-Parser might not be enough.

> I can't re-emerge something I hadn't emerged Smile

Seriously, why should I
> need to emerge something that ought to be a dependency?

Known issue, ignoring messages from Portage does you no good.

> Anyways, done that, and it now fails with "no error message" !!!

That's not very informative, but neither was your bug...

> Can anyone recommend a decent browser other than firefox or konq?

firefox works great

Wim Cossement · External Since: Mar 21, 2007 Posts: 20

Anthony.Youngman.RemoveThis@ECA-International.com wrote:
> On Jun 21, 9:36 am, Wim Cossement <a....RemoveThis@b.c> wrote:
>> Anthony.Young....RemoveThis@ECA-International.com wrote:
>>> On Jun 20, 5:34 pm, "Nuno J. Silva" <nuno....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:51:11 -0700
>>>> Anthony.Young....RemoveThis@ECA-International.com wrote:
>>>>> How do I manage to get a successful emerge?
>>>>> It bombs because of a missing XML::Parser, which seems to be a known
>>>>> problem - when I created a bug-report it was closed within minutes as
>>>>> a duplicate of a much earlier bug. That's all very well, but not much
>>>>> help to me when the problem has clearly been there for weeks - I did
>>>>> a
>>>>> emerge --sync
>>>>> emerge mozilla-firefox
>>>>> twice about a week apart and both failed ...
>>>>> btw, I use KDE, and have -gnome (or whatever it is) in my use flags -
>>>>> the earlier bug was something to do with gnome.
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Wol
>>>> Just a shoot in the dark, try to re-emerge dev-perl/XML-Parser. If that
>>>> doesn't work, run the commands Wim gave you.
>>> I can't re-emerge something I hadn't emerged Smile

Seriously, why should
>>> I need to emerge something that ought to be a dependency?
>>> Anyways, done that, and it now fails with "no error message" !!!
>>> Can anyone recommend a decent browser other than firefox or konq?
>> Opera is very good too, but it's a binary release...- Hide quoted text -
>>
> I'll have to try it - my brother likes it. Actually, I'm after a
> browser so's I can test Apache, and I'm having a little fun there too
> - loads of information on "how to upgrade apache", but nothing on how
> to install it. Is it Apache2 by default now? I emerge Apache and get
> the test page, but don't know how to check which version it is. I want
> to install a wiki, so I need to enable php, and I'm getting
> conflicting messages from the documentation ...

Basic istallation is not that hard
(http://gentoo-wiki.com/Apache2_Install). And it's indeed Apache2, the
1.x seems to have been kicked out of portage...

How about running 'emerge -s apache' or 'eix -S apache'?

And you should use webapp-config to install and configure web applications.

HTH,

Wimmy
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>

--
From time to time you have to act crazy in order not to become it...

Anthony.Youngman · External Since: Jun 20, 2007 Posts: 6

On Jun 21, 2:01 pm, not <n....DeleteThis@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:23:08 -0700, Anthony.Youngman wrote:
> >> > How do I manage to get a successful emerge?
>
> >> > It bombs because of a missing XML::Parser, which seems to be a known
> >> > problem - when I created a bug-report it was closed within minutes as
> >> > a duplicate of a much earlier bug. That's all very well, but not much
> >> > help to me when the problem has clearly been there for weeks - I did
> >> > a
>
> >> > emerge --sync
> >> > emerge mozilla-firefox
>
> Bug ishttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182384
> Did you bother to read the bug yours was a dupe of?

I'm a gentoo newbie - I don't think I knew how too.
>
> >> Just a shoot in the dark, try to re-emerge dev-perl/XML-Parser. If that
> >> doesn't work, run the commands Wim gave you.
>
> Indeed, you need to fix your perl installation. When Portage told you to
> run perl-cleaner, it meant it, you ignored it.

Where did it tell me to run perl-cleaner? Are you telling me that the
perl installation is broken as it comes from portage?

> Emerging dev-perl/XML-Parser might not be enough.
>
> > I can't re-emerge something I hadn't emerged Smile

Seriously, why should I
> > need to emerge something that ought to be a dependency?
>
> Known issue, ignoring messages from Portage does you no good.
>
Agreed. But iirc, it was the "emerge firefox" command that pulled perl
in as a dependency - from my point of view it's still a firefox bug if
it depends on a broken perl install ...

> > Anyways, done that, and it now fails with "no error message" !!!
>
> That's not very informative, but neither was your bug...

"no error message" is not what I said, it's what emerge says Smile

Oh well, bugzilla seems to be taking that bug seriously now.
>
> > Can anyone recommend a decent browser other than firefox or konq?
>
> firefox works great

On Windows, yes. On SuSE yes. On my gentoo, no Sad

Oh,