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
