Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.1.1_rc1-r4: OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy

[Zac Medico]

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Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> All of a sudden, I get the following error when I run emerge:
>
> alexander@blatt /etc $ Gestoppt sudo emerge -C media-gfx/feh
>
>
> Performing Global Updates: /Gentoo/Portage/tree/profiles/updates/2Q-2006
> (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
>   .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
>   s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*'
> ........................................
> pTraceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in ?
>     emerge_main()
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3770, in emerge_main
>     portage.global_updates(settings, trees, mtimedb["updates"])
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6645, in global_updates
>     myupd)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_update.py", line 198, in update_config_files
>     write_atomic(updating_file, "".join(file_contents[x]))
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 728, in write_atomic
>     f.close()
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 696, in close
>     os.rename(self.name, self._real_name)
> OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy
>
> Did anyone else notice this?
>
> Alexander Skwar

That appears to be some type of device/filesystem/kernel misbehavior.  It happened
while portage was attempting to apply package moves to one of the
/etc/portage/package.* files.

Zac
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