[gentoo-user] odd emerge problem

[gentoo-user] odd emerge problem

[Adrian]

Greetings all;

Emerge is doing some odd things.  Most of the time it works, but when I
try to run 

emerge -pv world 

I get:
---------------------------------
\x02Mon Aug 21 19:47:13
\x02/usr/portage/distfiles/portage-snapshots
 root $  emerge -pv world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3440, in ?
    if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1416, in xcreate
    elif not portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4665, in match
    mydep=dep_expand(origdep,mydb=self,use_cache=use_cache)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3531, in dep_expand
    return
prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb=mydb,use_cache=use_cache)+postfix File
"/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3694, in cpv_expand if (not
mydb.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache)) and virts and
virts.has_key(mykey): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line
4606, in cp_list
mystat=os.stat(self.root+VDB_PATH+"/"+mysplit[0])[stat.ST_MTIME]
TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL
bytes), not str

----------------------------

emerge -pv system

works just fine.  I have been & currently am installing other things.
I've gotten the same (or a very similar) message when trying to install
or fetch some packages, but I can consistently reproduce this when I
try to do the emerge -pv world.  Or anything else with the 'world'.
--------------------------------
\x02Mon Aug 21 19:47:38
\x02/usr/portage/distfiles/portage-snapshots
 root $  emerge --ask -v world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating world dependencies
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3440, in ?
    if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1416, in xcreate
    elif not portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4665, in match
    mydep=dep_expand(origdep,mydb=self,use_cache=use_cache)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3531, in dep_expand
    return
prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb=mydb,use_cache=use_cache)+postfix File
"/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3694, in cpv_expand if (not
mydb.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache)) and virts and
virts.has_key(mykey): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line
4606, in cp_list
mystat=os.stat(self.root+VDB_PATH+"/"+mysplit[0])[stat.ST_MTIME]
TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL
bytes), not str

-----------------
and
----------------

\x02Mon Aug 21 19:51:51
\x02/usr/portage/distfiles/portage-snapshots
 root $  emerge -f world

Calculating world dependencies

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3440, in ?
    if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1416, in xcreate
    elif not portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4665, in match
    mydep=dep_expand(origdep,mydb=self,use_cache=use_cache)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3531, in dep_expand
    return
prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb=mydb,use_cache=use_cache)+postfix File
"/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3694, in cpv_expand if (not
mydb.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache)) and virts and
virts.has_key(mykey): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line
4606, in cp_list
mystat=os.stat(self.root+VDB_PATH+"/"+mysplit[0])[stat.ST_MTIME]
TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL
bytes), not str

---------------------------

As always, I am very thankful for any assistance or leads.

Adrian




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Re: [gentoo-user] odd emerge problem

[Zac Medico]

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Adrian wrote:
>  root $  emerge --ask -v world
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> Calculating world dependencies
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3440, in ?
>     if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1416, in xcreate
>     elif not portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x):
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4665, in match
>     mydep=dep_expand(origdep,mydb=self,use_cache=use_cache)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3531, in dep_expand
>     return
> prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb=mydb,use_cache=use_cache)+postfix File
> "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3694, in cpv_expand if (not
> mydb.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache)) and virts and
> virts.has_key(mykey): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line
> 4606, in cp_list
> mystat=os.stat(self.root+VDB_PATH+"/"+mysplit[0])[stat.ST_MTIME]
> TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL
> bytes), not str

It seems that /var/lib/portage/world is corrupt and contains NULL bytes.  You should probably check your filesystem for additional corruption.

Zac
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Re: [gentoo-user] odd emerge problem

[Adrian]

You were so correct.  
Problem solved.
I'll be checking the file system for corruption.
Thanks so much.

Adrian


On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:45:22 -0700
Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote the words:

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> Adrian wrote:
> >  root $  emerge --ask -v world
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> > Calculating world dependencies
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3440, in ?
> >     if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
> >   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1416, in xcreate
> >     elif not portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x):
> >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4665, in match
> >     mydep=dep_expand(origdep,mydb=self,use_cache=use_cache)
> >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3531, in dep_expand
> >     return
> > prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb=mydb,use_cache=use_cache)+postfix File
> > "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3694, in cpv_expand if (not
> > mydb.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache)) and virts and
> > virts.has_key(mykey): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line
> > 4606, in cp_list
> > mystat=os.stat(self.root+VDB_PATH+"/"+mysplit[0])[stat.ST_MTIME]
> > TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL
> > bytes), not str
> 
> It seems that /var/lib/portage/world is corrupt and contains NULL
> bytes.  You should probably check your filesystem for additional
> corruption.
> 
> Zac
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Re: [gentoo-user] odd emerge problem

[Alan Mckinnon]

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 19:55 -0700, Adrian wrote:
> 
> Greetings all;
> 
> Emerge is doing some odd things.  Most of the time it works, but when
> I
> try to run 
> 
> emerge -pv world 
> 
> I get:
> ---------------------------------
> \x02Mon Aug 21 19:47:13
> \x02/usr/portage/distfiles/portage-snapshots
>  root $  emerge -pv world
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating world dependencies
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3440, in ?
>     if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1416, in xcreate 

I was getting a lot of these a week or so ago. I also noted a fair
number of portage/emerge zombie processes showing up in top, and some
others that just hung for no good reason. A workaround was to make sure
no emerges were still running then 'killall emerge' and retry.

That worked. Meanwhile, since a portage update in the last few days the
bug hasn;t shown up again for me.

alan


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