[gentoo-dev] xscreensaver merge failure

[gentoo-dev] xscreensaver merge failure

[Tod M. Neidt]

Hi!

I get the following error when trying to merge xscreensaver. (compile
and install are succesfull)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/ebuild", line 8, in ?
    a=portage.doebuild(sys.argv[1],x)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py", line 505, in doebuild
    return
merge(settings["CATEGORY"],settings["PF"],settings["D"],settings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py", line 583, in merge
    mylink.merge(mystart,myinfostart)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py", line 1806, in merge
    self.merge(mergeroot,inforoot,mergestart+"/"+x,outfile)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py", line 1806, in merge
    self.merge(mergeroot,inforoot,mergestart+"/"+x,outfile)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py", line 1806, in merge
    self.merge(mergeroot,inforoot,mergestart+"/"+x,outfile)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py", line 1886, in merge
    outfile.write("obj "+relfile+" "+mymd5+" "+getmtime(rootfile)+"\n")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.0/portage.py", line 569, in getmtime
    return `os.lstat(x)[-2]`
OSError: [Errno 75] Value too large for defined data type:
'/opt/gnome/bin/screensaver-properties-capplet'

I am currently running portage-1.5.2

tod

Re: [gentoo-dev] xscreensaver merge failure

[Tod M. Neidt]

Hi!

A quick follow up to this problem as I have been unable to squash it.  I
get basically the same error when running updatedb.

find: /opt/gnome/bin/screensaver-properties-capplet: Value too large for
defined data type
find: /opt/gnome/bin/screensaver-properties-capplet: Value too large for
defined data type  

It seems to be a low level lstat error, but it has me completely baffled
as I only have this problem on my Athlon box.  I don't have these
problems on my PII box.

If anyone has run into this before or has any suggestions, I would
appreciate hearing from you.

tod

Re: [gentoo-dev] xscreensaver merge failure

[Daniel Robbins]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:24:07AM -0500, Tod M. Neidt wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> A quick follow up to this problem as I have been unable to squash it.  I
> get basically the same error when running updatedb.
> 
> find: /opt/gnome/bin/screensaver-properties-capplet: Value too large for
> defined data type
> find: /opt/gnome/bin/screensaver-properties-capplet: Value too large for
> defined data type  
> 
> It seems to be a low level lstat error, but it has me completely baffled
> as I only have this problem on my Athlon box.  I don't have these
> problems on my PII box.

On your Athlon box, make sure that you can view the contents of this file
using most, without problems.  It could be a filesystem error.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.