[gentoo-user] fsck + emerge => crash

[gentoo-user] fsck + emerge => crash

[Loupy]

Hey all,

I got a power here, which after I had to run fsck... well there where
some troubled Inodes and I choosed yes to repair them.
So far so good, system booted well, but now I cannot emerge anything at all.

emerge --info tells me as normal user:
emerge: incomplete set configuration, missing set(s): "world" and "system"
        This usually means that '/usr/share/portage/config/sets.conf'
        is missing or corrupt.
as su I get a bunch of these messages:
Parse Error reading PROVIDE and USE in '/var/db/pkg/kde-base/libkdeedu-3.5.10'
Exception: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 19:
ordinal not in range(128)


Parse Error reading PROVIDE and USE in
'/var/db/pkg/x11-plugins/pidgin-otr-3.2.0'
Exception: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 19:
ordinal not in range(128)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 42, in <module>
    retval = emerge_main()
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1059, in emerge_main
    if portage._global_updates(trees, mtimedb["updates"]):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 8855, in _global_updates
    vardb.update_ents(myupd, onUpdate=onUpdate)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/__init__.py", line 227, in
update_ents
    metadata = dict(zip(update_keys, aux_get(cpv, update_keys)))
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 1212, in aux_get
    pkg_data = self._aux_cache["packages"].get(mycpv)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 1118, in _aux_cache
    self._aux_cache_init()
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 1146, in
_aux_cache_init
    (self._aux_cache_filename, str(e)), noiselevel=-1)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position
19: ordinal not in range(128)

emerge --regen tells me the same...

well, what would you advice me to do?

Regards,
Loupy

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck + emerge => crash

[Albert Hopkins]

On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 20:01 +0100, Loupy wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I got a power here, which after I had to run fsck... well there where
> some troubled Inodes and I choosed yes to repair them.
> So far so good, system booted well, but now I cannot emerge anything
> at all.

[...]
> 
> well, what would you advice me to do?

My advice would have been to do periodic backups.  But I guess it's too
late for that.

For the encoding error, that character qualifies as latin1 (â) so maybe
it's an issue where your system (or python) encoding got out of wack.
You may be able to fix it easily changing that, but my guess is along
the way you'll find little errors here and there with other things
(that's why backups are so handy).

-a

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck + emerge => crash

[Mick]

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On Monday 16 November 2009 21:16:29 Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 20:01 +0100, Loupy wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I got a power here, which after I had to run fsck... well there where
> > some troubled Inodes and I choosed yes to repair them.
> > So far so good, system booted well, but now I cannot emerge anything
> > at all.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > well, what would you advice me to do?
> 
> My advice would have been to do periodic backups.  But I guess it's too
> late for that.
> 
> For the encoding error, that character qualifies as latin1 (â) so maybe
> it's an issue where your system (or python) encoding got out of wack.
> You may be able to fix it easily changing that, but my guess is along
> the way you'll find little errors here and there with other things
> (that's why backups are so handy).

I assume that you ran fsck from a LiveCD?  May want to use the same to rebuild 
your toolchain.

Have a look here: <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-
portage.xml> in case it helps.
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] fsck + emerge => crash

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Montag 16 November 2009, Loupy wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I got a power here, which after I had to run fsck... well there where
> some troubled Inodes and I choosed yes to repair them.
> So far so good, system booted well, but now I cannot emerge anything at
>  all.
> 
> emerge --info tells me as normal user:
> emerge: incomplete set configuration, missing set(s): "world" and "system"
>         This usually means that '/usr/share/portage/config/sets.conf'
>         is missing or corrupt.

probably that files endet in LOST+FOUND. You also can get them from a portage 
tarfile

> as su I get a bunch of these messages:
> Parse Error reading PROVIDE and USE in
>  '/var/db/pkg/kde-base/libkdeedu-3.5.10' Exception: 'ascii' codec can't
>  decode byte 0xe2 in position 19:
> ordinal not in range(128)

best thing you can do - remove the directories affected and re-emerge the stuff.

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck + emerge => crash

[Loupy]

Hi all,

2009/11/16 Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>:
> My advice would have been to do periodic backups.  But I guess it's too
> late for that.
Eeeeek, backups: She needs backup because she can't hang with the big dogs.
Well now I learned a lesson.

> For the encoding error, that character qualifies as latin1 (â) so maybe
> it's an issue where your system (or python) encoding got out of wack.
> You may be able to fix it easily changing that, but my guess is along
> the way you'll find little errors here and there with other things
> (that's why backups are so handy).
I will try this first, but I think you are with the little errors.

2009/11/16 Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>:
> I assume that you ran fsck from a LiveCD?  May want to use the same to rebuild
> your toolchain.
As for the toolchain: is python part of it?

> Have a look here: <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-
> portage.xml> in case it helps.
That's where I first looked for advice, but the procedure doesn't help
me fixing this issue over here. I think it would be nice if one sets
up an article how to rebuild the current system.

2009/11/16 Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>:
> probably that files endet in LOST+FOUND. You also can get them from a portage
> tarfile
Well, I found some of the files, but not all, so I will have to
remerge at least the ones I didn't find.

> best thing you can do - remove the directories affected and re-emerge the stuff.
Jip, that's what I heading for now. The funny thing is, that the
system as whole runs charming, just emerge seems to be broken.

-
Will report soon which way I gone.

Stay tuned!
~Loupy