[gentoo-user] PORTAGE_BUILDDIR does not exist

[Ashley Dixon]

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 ?

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Ashley Dixon
suugaku.co.uk

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