From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P6C1z-0003l3-ME for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:50:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 898E0E0858; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU (sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU [128.112.16.31]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E54E0858 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from math.princeton.edu ([128.112.18.16]) by sentinel.math.Princeton.EDU with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P6C1O-0005dk-FX for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:50:15 -0400 Received: from math.Princeton.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o9E0oEuK010231 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:50:14 -0400 Received: (from wwong@localhost) by math.Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id o9E0oEOK010228 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:50:14 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:50:14 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails Message-ID: <20101014005014.GA9765@math.princeton.edu> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Archives-Salt: b8e3e3ce-4200-422a-aa54-cd8df3f7f164 X-Archives-Hash: c0a9eb693df0c25858200b74b6f470f4 On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:05:40PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed > * with exit value -1. > * > * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named > * 'arora-0.11.0.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/www- > * client/arora-0.11.0' directory. If necessary, manually remove the > * environment.bz2 file and/or the ebuild file located in that directory. > * > * Removal of the environment.bz2 file is preferred since it may allow the > * removal phases to execute successfully. The ebuild will be sourced and > * the eclasses from the current portage tree will be used when necessary. > * Removal of the ebuild file will cause the pkg_prerm() and pkg_postrm() > * removal phases to be skipped entirely. > > * Messages for package www-client/arora-0.11.0: > > * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed > * with exit value -1. > * > * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named > * 'arora-0.11.0.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/www- > * client/arora-0.11.0' directory. If necessary, manually remove the > * environment.bz2 file and/or the ebuild file located in that directory. > * > * Removal of the environment.bz2 file is preferred since it may allow the > * removal phases to execute successfully. The ebuild will be sourced and > * the eclasses from the current portage tree will be used when necessary. > * Removal of the ebuild file will cause the pkg_prerm() and pkg_postrm() > * removal phases to be skipped entirely. > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 42, in > retval = emerge_main() > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1492, in emerge_main > myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 2305, in action_uninstall > valid_atoms, ldpath_mtimes, ordered=ordered) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/unmerge.py", line 507, in unmerge > scheduler=scheduler) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4509, in unmerge > ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 2160, in unmerge > vartree=self.vartree) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py", line > 793, in doebuild > fd_pipes=fd_pipes, returnpid=returnpid) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py", line > 1261, in spawn > buf.fromfile(f, buffsize) > IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error Strange, an IO error? Which other packages do you have this problem with? W -- Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton