[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-installer] emerge gives traceback during gentoo installation

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:44:11PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote:
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> Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >>>> Emerging (2 of 2) app-admin/syslog-ng-1.6.9 to /
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3545, in ?
> >     mydepgraph.merge(pkglist)
> >   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2075, in merge
> >     retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,tree="porttree")
> >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2948, in doebuild
> >     if need_distfiles and not fetch(fetchme, mysettings, listonly=listonly, fetchonly=fetchonly):
> >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1954, in fetch
> >     mydigests = Manifest(
> >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 119, in __init__
> >     self._read()
> >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 179, in _read
> >     self._readDigests(myhashdict=self.fhashdict)
> >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 148, in _readDigests
> >     myhashdict=myhashdict)
> >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 164, in _readManifest
> >     self._parseDigests(fd, myhashdict=myhashdict, **kwargs)
> >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 198, in _parseDigests
> >     for myentry in self._parseManifestLines(mylines):
> >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_manifest.py", line 184, in _parseManifestLines
> >     for myline in mylines:
> > IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error
>
> That IOError occurs when portage is trying to read one of the
> $PORTDIR/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/digest-* files.  There appears to
> be some type of filesystem and/or disk corruption.
>
> Zac

Yesss.... I should have guessed.  That file system had been hit previously
by Debian bug 401006, and somehow escaped being fsck'd.  Evidently it
hadn't escaped being f*ck'd

Thanks.

-- hendrik
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