Re: [gentoo-user] portage -u world broken by /var/cache/edb/world

[phil]

Are you running reiserfs or have had any lockups? when i first installed 
gentoo i was using rfs and locked it a few times (badly configured 
kernel ,acpi-nforce2 issue) which badly messed up some files and forced 
me to reinstall with ext3,which seems to be a bit more forgiving.

Jared Thirsk wrote:

First the error message I got:

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] portage # emerge -u world -p
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2513, in ?
   if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1093, in xcreate
   if portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x):
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4148, in match
   mymatch=match_from_list(mydep,self.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache))
 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4074, in cp_list
   mystat=os.stat(self.root+VDB_PATH+"/"+mysplit[0])[ST_MTIME]
TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL 
bytes), not str
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For some reason, my /var/cache/edb/world had a line beginning with 
ld.so-1.7.0, followed by 1976 characters of binary.  Removing this 
line solved the problem.  How it got in there, I have no idea -- I 
hope it's not a hardware issue.

Jared

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