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From: Frank Baumeister <haga.chan@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] portage broken
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:40:44
Message-Id: 200609141434.08888.haga.chan@web.de
1 Hello,
2
3 whenever I run emerge it aborts with the following error message:
4
5 localhost # emerge --sync
6
7 Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2006
8 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
9 .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move'
10 s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move'
11 p='update /etc/portage/package.*'
12 ........
13 pTraceback (most recent call last):
14 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in ?
15 emerge_main()
16 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3770, in emerge_main
17 portage.global_updates(settings, trees, mtimedb["updates"])
18 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6656, in global_updates
19 myupd)
20 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_update.py", line 198, in
21 update_config_files
22 write_atomic(updating_file, "".join(file_contents[x]))
23 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 728, in
24 write_atomic
25 f.close()
26 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 696, in close
27 os.rename(self.name, self._real_name)
28 OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy
29 localhost #
30
31 I have no clue how to solve this problem, so any help would be greatly
32 appreciated!
33
34 Kind regards
35 Frank
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>