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For the past several weeks I have been having a recurring problem with |
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portage's metadata cache after a sync. The problem is reproduceable |
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100% of the time now, so either I have something configured wrong or |
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there's actually a problem with the portage mirrors: |
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The problem is easily fixed by removing the cache and forcing emerge to |
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rebuild it, but the next time I sync the corruption returns: |
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gentoo portage # emerge --sync |
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[...] |
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>>> Updating Portage cache: Traceback (most recent call last): |
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File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in ? |
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emerge_main() |
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File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4006, in emerge_main |
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action_sync(settings, trees, mtimedb, myopts, myaction) |
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File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2924, in action_sync |
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action_metadata(settings, portdb, myopts) |
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File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3019, in action_metadata |
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eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker) |
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File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py", line 47, in mirror_cache |
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if trg and not write_it: |
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File "/usr/lib/python2.4/UserDict.py", line 170, in __len__ |
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return len(self.keys()) |
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File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 54, in keys |
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return list(self.__iter__()) |
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File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 48, in __iter__ |
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for k in self.orig.iterkeys(): |
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File "/usr/lib/python2.4/UserDict.py", line 103, in iterkeys |
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return self.__iter__() |
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File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 83, in __iter__ |
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return iter(self.keys()) |
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File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 87, in keys |
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self.d.update(self.pull()) |
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File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 29, in callit |
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return args[0](*args[1:]+args2) |
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File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 47, in _pull |
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raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e) |
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cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption: |
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app-accessibility/SphinxTrain-0.9.1-r1 is corrupt: dictionary update |
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sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required |
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gentoo portage # rm -rf /usr/portage/metadata/cache/ |
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gentoo portage # emerge --metadata |
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Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2007 |
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(Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) |
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.='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' |
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s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update |
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/etc/portage/package.*' |
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............ |
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>>> Updating Portage cache: 100% |
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