On 01/30/2017 12:57 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 01/30/2017 01:41 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2017-01-30, the...@sys-concept.com <the...@sys-concept.com> wrote:
>>> On 01/29/2017 01:56 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>>>> I haven't updated my system for over a year (1year and 3-months).
>>>> I was trying to upgrade my firefox-bin and I'm already running into
>>>> problems.
>>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> OK, I have just few blockers. What to do with them?
>>> I have grup-0.97-r16 installed in slot: "0"
>>>
>>>
>>> [blocks B ] sys-boot/grub:2[-multislot] ("sys-boot/grub:2[-multislot]"
>>> is blocking sys-boot/grub-0.97-r16)
>>> [blocks B ] sys-boot/grub:0 ("sys-boot/grub:0" is blocking
>>> sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta3-r1)
>>
>> You probably need to set the 'multislot' use flag for grub.
>
> I don't use grub-2.
> I think I will need to install grub-0.97-r16
> and reinstall it gain.
> Do I need to enable 'multislot' use flag for grub?
>
>>
>>
>>> dev-lang/perl:0
>>> x11-base/xorg-server:0
>>> media-libs/giflib:0
>>> media-libs/libdvbpsi:0
>>> dev-libs/kpathsea:0
>>
>> For those, I'd probably just uninstall all of them. Do an emerge
>> --depclean, then reinstall them...
>
> --
> Thelma
>
>
You probably used sys-boot/grub to install grub, and so it's trying to
install the newer version.
To fix this, run:
# emerge --deselect sys-boot/grub
# emerge --noreplace sys-boot/grub:0
That'll fix your world file.
Dan
