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From: Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:56:12
Message-Id: 45094FAC.2010405@ilievnet.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] portage broken by Frank Baumeister
1 Try this:
2
3 rm /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp.chk
4 emerge --sync
5
6
7 Frank Baumeister wrote:
8 > Hello,
9 >
10 > whenever I run emerge it aborts with the following error message:
11 >
12 > localhost # emerge --sync
13 >
14 > Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2006
15 > (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
16 > .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move'
17 > s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move'
18 > p='update /etc/portage/package.*'
19 > ........
20 > pTraceback (most recent call last):
21 > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in ?
22 > emerge_main()
23 > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3770, in emerge_main
24 > portage.global_updates(settings, trees, mtimedb["updates"])
25 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6656, in global_updates
26 > myupd)
27 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_update.py", line 198, in
28 > update_config_files
29 > write_atomic(updating_file, "".join(file_contents[x]))
30 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 728, in
31 > write_atomic
32 > f.close()
33 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 696, in close
34 > os.rename(self.name, self._real_name)
35 > OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy
36 > localhost #
37 >
38 > I have no clue how to solve this problem, so any help would be greatly
39 > appreciated!
40 >
41 > Kind regards
42 > Frank
43 >
44
45
46 --
47 Best regards,
48 Daniel
49
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken Frank Baumeister <haga.chan@×××.de>