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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Corrupt portage cache
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:01:10
Message-Id: 358eca8f0611260356m3c9cd059ic792e8fb2f0d4c80@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi All,
2
3 I am trying to update/upgrade a box that has been standing for the
4 last year or so and this is what I have up to:
5 ====================================
6 # emerge --metadata -v
7
8 >>> Updating Portage cache: Traceback (most recent call last):
9 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in ?
10 emerge_main()
11 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4008, in emerge_main
12 action_metadata(settings, portdb, myopts)
13 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3019, in action_metadata
14 eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker)
15 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py", line 47, in mirror_cache
16 if trg and not write_it:
17 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/UserDict.py", line 170, in __len__
18 return len(self.keys())
19 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 54, in keys
20 return list(self.__iter__())
21 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 48, in __iter__
22 for k in self.orig.iterkeys():
23 File "/usr/lib/python2.4/UserDict.py", line 103, in iterkeys
24 return self.__iter__()
25 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 83, in __iter__
26 return iter(self.keys())
27 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 87, in keys
28 self.d.update(self.pull())
29 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 29, in callit
30 return args[0](*args[1:]+args2)
31 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 47, in _pull
32 raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e)
33 cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption:
34 app-accessibility/SphinxTrain-0.9.1-r1 is corrupt: dictionary update
35 sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required
36 ====================================
37
38 Any idea how to fix it?
39 --
40 Regards,
41 Mick
42 --
43 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

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Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt portage cache Fabrice Delliaux <netfab@×××××.com>