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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] odd emerge problem
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:50:37
Message-Id: 44EA6FC2.1020303@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] odd emerge problem by Adrian
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4 Adrian wrote:
5 > root $ emerge --ask -v world
6 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
7 > Calculating world dependencies
8 > Traceback (most recent call last):
9 > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3440, in ?
10 > if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
11 > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1416, in xcreate
12 > elif not portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x):
13 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4665, in match
14 > mydep=dep_expand(origdep,mydb=self,use_cache=use_cache)
15 > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3531, in dep_expand
16 > return
17 > prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb=mydb,use_cache=use_cache)+postfix File
18 > "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3694, in cpv_expand if (not
19 > mydb.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache)) and virts and
20 > virts.has_key(mykey): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line
21 > 4606, in cp_list
22 > mystat=os.stat(self.root+VDB_PATH+"/"+mysplit[0])[stat.ST_MTIME]
23 > TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL
24 > bytes), not str
25
26 It seems that /var/lib/portage/world is corrupt and contains NULL bytes. You should probably check your filesystem for additional corruption.
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28 Zac
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