Re: [gentoo-user] read errors mapping "/profiles/ChangeLog" (in gentoo-portage)

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 19 October 2008 09:06:23 Dale wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did a sync earlier and noticed this little message scroll by:
>>
>> WARNING: profiles/ChangeLog failed verification -- update discarded
>> (will try again).
>> rsync: read errors mapping "/profiles/ChangeLog" (in gentoo-portage):
>> Stale NFS file handle (116)
>>
>> Anybody else get that?  Portage seems to work fine, downloading java
>> right now and OOo for the rest of the week.  Just curious if someone
>> should know about this or not.
>>     
>
> Check bugzilla. If there is something wrong with the tree, it's likely already 
> reported and fixed. You probably synced while an update to that part of the 
> tree was going on - happens to me about once a year (i.e. not very often)
>
> The error itself is harmless, it's just a ChangeLog file. So by rights therest 
> of portage and the tree should continue to work just fine.
>
>   

Sort of what I thought.  Everything is working just fine but if I see it
again, same file, then I'll check into it more closely.

I guess with a tree as big as Gentoo has, someone is messing with one or
more files about all the time.  Bound to catch one on occasion I guess. 
< shrugs >

Dale

:-)  :-)