I have decided to upgrade my system. I haven't done it for awhile because it takes so long on a Intel Nano with 1GB of RAM. I normally only upgrade the programs I use to most along with any upgrade requirements that it has. This may be what is causing all of my problems.
On 06/05/2012 09:03 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Willie Matthews > <matthews.wil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ("<sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r3" is blocking sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2) >> >> * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be >> * installed at the same time on the same system. >> >> (sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r2::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >> >=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r6 required by (virtual/init-0::gentoo, >> installed) >> >> (sys-apps/util-linux-2.21.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >> pulled in by >> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16 required by >> (sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.73-r1::gentoo, installed) >> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.20.1-r2 required by >> (sys-fs/udisks-1.97.0-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16 required by (sys-fs/udev-171-r5::gentoo, >> installed) >> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16 required by >> (x11-libs/libSM-1.2.0::gentoo, installed) >> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.17.2 required by >> (sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.4.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16 required by >> (net-libs/gupnp-0.13.4::gentoo, installed) >> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.13 required by >> (sys-power/pm-utils-1.4.1::gentoo, installed) >> sys-apps/util-linux required by @system >> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16 required by >> (sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.14::gentoo, installed) >> sys-apps/util-linux required by >> (app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.4::gentoo, installed) >> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16 required by (dev-libs/apr-1.4.5::gentoo, >> installed) > Assuming you've already done a full upgrade of world, and don't have > anything strange masked/keyworded, I would try: > > emerge --oneshot sys-apps/sysvinit sys-apps/util-linux > > or maybe each one at a time if that doesn't work. If one at a time > doesn't work, maybe try to unmerge util-linux, upgrade sysvinit, then > reinstall util-linux. Be sure to make binary package of util-linux > before unmerging just in case it all goes wrong. > -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com