From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GNqlH-0005wW-Ne for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:56:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8ECsPpJ011453; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:54:25 GMT Received: from ilievnet.com ([84.21.204.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8ECmi75010552 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:48:44 GMT Received: (qmail 24609 invoked from network); 14 Sep 2006 15:48:44 +0300 Received: from mail.ilievnet.com (HELO ?10.0.1.1?) (10.0.1.1) by mail.ilievnet.com with SMTP; 14 Sep 2006 15:48:44 +0300 Message-ID: <45094FAC.2010405@ilievnet.com> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:48:44 +0300 From: Daniel Iliev User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060908) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken References: <200609141434.08888.haga.chan@web.de> In-Reply-To: <200609141434.08888.haga.chan@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bd5f170a-9aec-42d1-b786-b3af136d25bf X-Archives-Hash: 4c5bfc2714cb4bf569c20c1a2708c0ab Try this: rm /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp.chk emerge --sync Frank Baumeister wrote: > Hello, > > whenever I run emerge it aborts with the following error message: > > localhost # emerge --sync > > Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2006 > (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) > .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' > s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' > p='update /etc/portage/package.*' > ........ > pTraceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in ? > emerge_main() > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3770, in emerge_main > portage.global_updates(settings, trees, mtimedb["updates"]) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6656, in global_updates > myupd) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_update.py", line 198, in > update_config_files > write_atomic(updating_file, "".join(file_contents[x])) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 728, in > write_atomic > f.close() > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 696, in close > os.rename(self.name, self._real_name) > OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy > localhost # > > I have no clue how to solve this problem, so any help would be greatly > appreciated! > > Kind regards > Frank > -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list