On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 16:04:04 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Gentoo.
> While updating my old machine (a 1st generation Ryzen), I was 42 minutes
> through the emerge of rust when it crashed. This is probably due to the
> known hardware error in early Ryzen chips.
> So I tried
> # emerge --resume
> , which gave me a few lines of emerge messages followed by:
> * Error: Circular Dependencies
> (dev-lang/rust-1.84.1-r1:1.84.1/1.84.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
> merge) depends on
> (dev-lang/rust-1.84.1-r1:1.84.1/1.84.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
> merge (build time)
> [ Message copied by hand from old machine to new machine running email ]
> I'm not happy about this. I tried to unmerge that partial version of
> rust, but just got further error messages.
> How can I unwedge portage in this situation?
Well, I tried
# emerge -auND @world
again, and it seems to be working, including attempting to build rust
again.
I'd still be interested to find out what caused the bug in emerge
--resume.
> Thanks!
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
