Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_BUILDDIR does not exist

[Jack]

I'd start by looking at /var/tmp/portage/ (unless you changed the  
default PORTAGE_TMPDIR) to see what evidence the emerge process might  
have left.

On 2020.04.21 16:58, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been getting this build message for every package that I attempt
> to emerge.
> I'm starting to become  concerned  that  my  Portage  installation
> is  corrupt,
> although  I  want  to  make  sure  before  I  try  and  embark  on
> the  lengthy
> Portage-rescue process.
>
> For example, if I try to emerge app-editors/emacs (a package I  have
> never  had
> installed), I get the following error, both from emerge and a raw
> Python  crash:
>
> Calculating dependencies  ... done!
>
> >>> Verifying ebuild manifests
>
> >>> Emerging (1 of 5) net-libs/liblockfile-1.16::gentoo
>  * Fetching files in the background.
>  * To view fetch progress, run in another terminal:
>  * tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log
> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'mount': 'mount':
>    /bin/bash -c /usr/lib/portage/python3.6/ebuild.sh clean
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/portage/process.py", line
> 382, in spawn
>     unshare_flags, cgroup)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/portage/process.py", line
> 691, in _exec
>     '--make-slave', '/proc'])
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 729, in __init__
>     restore_signals, start_new_session)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 1364, in
> _execute_child
>     raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'mount':
> 'mount'
>  * The ebuild phase 'die_hooks' has been aborted since
> PORTAGE_BUILDDIR
>  * does not exist: '/var/tmp/portage/net-libs/liblockfile-1.16'
>
> >>> Failed to emerge net-libs/liblockfile-1.16
>  * Messages for package net-libs/liblockfile-1.16:
>
> <This is the end of the output; there are no messages from
> liblockfile.>
>
> Does  anyone  know  if  anything  can  be  done,  short  of
> re-installing   and
> re-configuring Portage ?
>
> --
>
> Ashley Dixon
> suugaku.co.uk
>
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