Re: [gentoo-user] fsck + emerge => crash

[Loupy]

Hi all,

2009/11/16 Albert Hopkins :
> My advice would have been to do periodic backups.  But I guess it's too
> late for that.
Ek, backups: She needs backup because she can't hang with the big dogs.
Well now I learned a lesson.

> For the encoding error, that character qualifies as latin1 (â) so maybe
> it's an issue where your system (or python) encoding got out of wack.
> You may be able to fix it easily changing that, but my guess is along
> the way you'll find little errors here and there with other things
> (that's why backups are so handy).
I will try this first, but I think you are with the little errors.

2009/11/16 Mick :
> I assume that you ran fsck from a LiveCD?  May want to use the same to rebuild
> your toolchain.
As for the toolchain: is python part of it?

> Have a look here: <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-
> portage.xml> in case it helps.
That's where I first looked for advice, but the procedure doesn't help
me fixing this issue over here. I think it would be nice if one sets
up an article how to rebuild the current system.

2009/11/16 Volker Armin Hemmann :
> probably that files endet in LOST+FOUND. You also can get them from a portage
> tarfile
Well, I found some of the files, but not all, so I will have to
remerge at least the ones I didn't find.

> best thing you can do - remove the directories affected and re-emerge the 
> stuff.
Jip, that's what I heading for now. The funny thing is, that the
system as whole runs charming, just emerge seems to be broken.

-
Will report soon which way I gone.

Stay tuned!
~Loupy

[gentoo-user] fsck + emerge => crash

[Loupy]

Hey all,

I got a power here, which after I had to run fsck... well there where
some troubled Inodes and I choosed yes to repair them.
So far so good, system booted well, but now I cannot emerge anything at all.

emerge --info tells me as normal user:
emerge: incomplete set configuration, missing set(s): "world" and "system"
This usually means that '/usr/share/portage/config/sets.conf'
is missing or corrupt.
as su I get a bunch of these messages:
Parse Error reading PROVIDE and USE in '/var/db/pkg/kde-base/libkdeedu-3.5.10'
Exception: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 19:
ordinal not in range(128)


Parse Error reading PROVIDE and USE in
'/var/db/pkg/x11-plugins/pidgin-otr-3.2.0'
Exception: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 19:
ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 42, in 
retval = emerge_main()
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1059, in emerge_main
if portage._global_updates(trees, mtimedb["updates"]):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 8855, in _global_updates
vardb.update_ents(myupd, onUpdate=onUpdate)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/__init__.py", line 227, in
update_ents
metadata = dict(zip(update_keys, aux_get(cpv, update_keys)))
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 1212, in aux_get
pkg_data = self._aux_cache["packages"].get(mycpv)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 1118, in _aux_cache
self._aux_cache_init()
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 1146, in
_aux_cache_init
(self._aux_cache_filename, str(e)), noiselevel=-1)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position
19: ordinal not in range(128)

emerge --regen tells me the same...

well, what would you advice me to do?

Regards,
Loupy