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* [gentoo-user] Portage Error
@ 2007-01-31 21:50 Patrick Holthaus
  2007-02-01  0:42 ` b.n.
  2007-02-01  1:26 ` Mark Kirkwood
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Patrick Holthaus @ 2007-01-31 21:50 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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Hello everybody!

This is my first post to the mailing list. So please forgive me if i am
doing something wrong...

I have a serious issue with portage because my hard disk (file system)
has been damaged. Now i am unable to detect wether the problem is
caused by portage or not.
However if i try to emerge net-wireless/ipw3945d i get the following error:

>>> Completed installing ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4 
into /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4/image/

 * QA Notice: Pre-stripped files found:
 * /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4/image/sbin/ipw3945d
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5271, in ?
    retval = emerge_main()
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5266, in emerge_main
    myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4733, in action_build
    retval = mergetask.merge(pkglist, favorites, mtimedb)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2980, in merge
    prev_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3674, in doebuild
    vartree=vartree, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3882, in merge
    mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7725, in merge
    cleanup=cleanup, mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7135, in treewalk
    slot_matches = self.vartree.dbapi.match(
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5169, in match
    mymatch = [cpv for cpv in mymatch \
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5262, in aux_get
    for k, v in izip(aux_keys, self._aux_get(mycpv, aux_keys)):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5275, in _aux_get
    raise KeyError(mycpv)
KeyError: 'net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4'

And nothing has been merged. ANY help on this would be appreciated, as i am 
using my laptop quite often and wireless is a must have for me. I also 
started a thread in the gentoo forums where more information about my system 
and tries i have made to compensate the file system errors can be found. You 
may want to have a look at it here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-535125-highlight-.html

Sadly no one could help me to resolve my issue until now. It would be great if 
you guys could.

Thank you
Patrick

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Error
  2007-01-31 21:50 [gentoo-user] Portage Error Patrick Holthaus
@ 2007-02-01  0:42 ` b.n.
  2007-02-01  8:09   ` Patrick Holthaus
  2007-02-01  1:26 ` Mark Kirkwood
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: b.n. @ 2007-02-01  0:42 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Your filesystem seems to be badly fu...ehm, fscked up. In the forums
people already told you the error you are having comes from a failing
I/O operation on some file on your filesystem.

You should have to identify what's rotten and what is not. This is
probably a painful and difficult process, and you won't never, ever be
sure everything is OK again. If I were in you, I'd reinstall. I know it
is not the answer you were looking for but...

Anyway, scary to see an ext3 filesystem crashing so badly.

m.
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Error
  2007-01-31 21:50 [gentoo-user] Portage Error Patrick Holthaus
  2007-02-01  0:42 ` b.n.
@ 2007-02-01  1:26 ` Mark Kirkwood
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Mark Kirkwood @ 2007-02-01  1:26 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

Patrick Holthaus wrote:

> KeyError: 'net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4'
> 
> And nothing has been merged. ANY help on this would be appreciated, as i am 
> using my laptop quite often and wireless is a must have for me. I also 
> started a thread in the gentoo forums where more information about my system 
> and tries i have made to compensate the file system errors can be found. You 
> may want to have a look at it here:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-535125-highlight-.html
> 

I notice in the forum you say you had a hard drive crash. The first 
thing to do is check the status of the drive itself (smartmontools or 
similar), and if it is ok, then poke around in dmesg and 
/var/log/messsages for ext3 filesystem problems.

regards

Mark

P.s : is it hard drive crash month or something?
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Error
  2007-02-01  0:42 ` b.n.
@ 2007-02-01  8:09   ` Patrick Holthaus
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Patrick Holthaus @ 2007-02-01  8:09 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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Hello!

Thank you guys. I am able to merge ipw3945d again.
The clue was that "/var/db/pkg/net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4"
was a file instead of a directory. I removed it and installed ipw3945d again.

But i guess a reinstall will be unavoidable anyway. :(

Patrick

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