On Saturday 18 March 2006 10:14, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > Recently have problems with latest portage-2.1_pre6-r3, specially when > using eix and now esearch too. ...SKIP... > Strange is that this happened just after i emerged qt-3.3.6 (which wanted > me to rebuild kdelibs), and so i run: "eix kdelibs" getting nothing as > result. Using "metadata_overlay patch" + FEATURES="... -metadata-transfer > ...". Looked now but couldn't identify any "metadata-patch" (unless > integrated) but it was on a mail two-three days ago (subj:"kudoos to all" > on this ML). PS: will try "emerge --metadata". > Didn't file a Bug as i think it might be some config/other error on my > side. TIA.Rumen A continuation: First 'emerge --metadata' gave: ...BEGIN... # emerge --metadata >>> cfg-update-1.8.0-r3 : No new packages have been emerged, checksum index OK... skipping sync
>>> Updating Portage cache:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2828, in ?
cache.util.mirror_cache(source, cm, pdb.auxdb[porttree_root],
eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py", line 19, in mirror_cache
dead_nodes = dict.fromkeys(trg_cache.keys())
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/template.py", line 94, in keys
return tuple(self.iterkeys())
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/metadata_overlay.py", line 67, in iterkeys
if self.has_key(cpv): # validates whiteout when necessary
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/metadata_overlay.py", line 59, in has_key
self[cpv] # validates whiteout when necessary
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/metadata_overlay.py", line 28, in
__getitem__
if self._is_whiteout(value):
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/metadata_overlay.py", line 76, in
_is_whiteout
return value["EAPI"] == "whiteout"
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 32, in __getitem__
return self.orig[key]
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 77, in __getitem__
self.d.update(self.pull())
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 29, in callit
return args[0](*args[1:]+args2)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 47, in _pull
raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e)
cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption: x11-libs/qt-3.3.6 is corrupt: dictionary
update sequence element #2 has length 1; 2 is required
...END...
So commented "/etc/portage/modules" & removed "metadata_overlay.py*"
Seems things are back to normal:
===
# emerge --metadata
>>> cfg-update-1.8.0-r3 : No new packages have been emerged, checksum index
OK...
skipping sync
>>> Updating Portage cache: 100%
===
# update-eix
Reading Portage settings ..
Building database (/var/cache/eix) from scratch ..
[0] /var/portage/ (cache: backport)
Reading 100%
[1] /usr/local/portage (cache: none)
Reading 100%
Applying masks ..
Database contains 10786 packages in 146 categories.
===# eupdatedb
* indexing: 0 ebuilds to go
* esearch-index generated in 18 minute(s) and 10 second(s)
* indexed 10786 ebuilds
* size of esearch-index: 1711 kB
===
Thanks.Rumen
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