Re: [gentoo-user] odd emerge problem

[Adrian <linuxgn2@204eastsouth.com>]

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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