On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 08:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 04 May 2011 08:43:17 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > > I have a few older systems (~6-10 years in use) that have no system > > list. Over the years there have been various disasters and methods of > > managing the software with the result that I have had to run regenworld > > amongst other things. > > @system is defined in the profile. Have you updated the profile on these > machines? If not, it is possible that the profile they are set to useno > longer exists. What does "eselect profile list" show? > >
No, they are really blank. I tried changing it to gnome instead of just the 10.0 profile as well. myth1 ~ # eselect profile list Available profile symlink targets: [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 * [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop [3] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/gnome [4] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde [5] default/linux/x86/10.0/developer [6] default/linux/x86/10.0/server [7] hardened/linux/x86 [8] selinux/2007.0/x86 [9] selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened [10] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86 [11] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/desktop [12] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/developer [13] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/hardened [14] selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/server myth1 ~ # eselect profile set 3 myth1 ~ # emerge system -ep emerge: 'system' is an empty set emerge: no targets left after set expansion myth1 ~ # eselect profile set 1 myth1 ~ # emerge system -ep emerge: 'system' is an empty set emerge: no targets left after set expansion myth1 ~ #
