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From: Patrick Holthaus <patrick.holthaus@×××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Portage Error
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:57:08
Message-Id: 200701312250.59399.patrick.holthaus@uni-bielefeld.de
1 Hello everybody!
2
3 This is my first post to the mailing list. So please forgive me if i am
4 doing something wrong...
5
6 I have a serious issue with portage because my hard disk (file system)
7 has been damaged. Now i am unable to detect wether the problem is
8 caused by portage or not.
9 However if i try to emerge net-wireless/ipw3945d i get the following error:
10
11 >>> Completed installing ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4
12 into /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4/image/
13
14 * QA Notice: Pre-stripped files found:
15 * /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4/image/sbin/ipw3945d
16 Traceback (most recent call last):
17 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5271, in ?
18 retval = emerge_main()
19 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5266, in emerge_main
20 myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
21 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4733, in action_build
22 retval = mergetask.merge(pkglist, favorites, mtimedb)
23 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2980, in merge
24 prev_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
25 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3674, in doebuild
26 vartree=vartree, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
27 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3882, in merge
28 mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
29 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7725, in merge
30 cleanup=cleanup, mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
31 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7135, in treewalk
32 slot_matches = self.vartree.dbapi.match(
33 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5169, in match
34 mymatch = [cpv for cpv in mymatch \
35 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5262, in aux_get
36 for k, v in izip(aux_keys, self._aux_get(mycpv, aux_keys)):
37 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5275, in _aux_get
38 raise KeyError(mycpv)
39 KeyError: 'net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r4'
40
41 And nothing has been merged. ANY help on this would be appreciated, as i am
42 using my laptop quite often and wireless is a must have for me. I also
43 started a thread in the gentoo forums where more information about my system
44 and tries i have made to compensate the file system errors can be found. You
45 may want to have a look at it here:
46 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-535125-highlight-.html
47
48 Sadly no one could help me to resolve my issue until now. It would be great if
49 you guys could.
50
51 Thank you
52 Patrick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Error "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Error Mark Kirkwood <markir@××××××××××××.nz>