On new installation timezone-data (any version) fail to install Reproducible: Always Actual Results: >>> Installing (1 of 1) sys-libs/timezone-data-2014b Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/_MergeProcess.py", line 234, in _spawn prev_mtimes=self.prev_mtimes, counter=counter) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4872, in merge counter=counter) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 3651, in treewalk retval = self._security_check(others_in_slot) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 3405, in _security_check s = os.lstat(path) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 259, in __call__ rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs) OSError: [Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links: '/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Australia/Adelaide' On existing system timezone-data install succesful, but on new installtion it fail with: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/_MergeProcess.py", line 234, in _spawn prev_mtimes=self.prev_mtimes, counter=counter) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4872, in merge counter=counter) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 3651, in treewalk retval = self._security_check(others_in_slot) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 3405, in _security_check s = os.lstat(path) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 259, in __call__ rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs) Portage 2.2.10 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.19, 3.13.8-aufs-costel x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.13.8-aufs-costel-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_860_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 16427936 total, 4058588 free KiB Swap: 0 total, 0 free Timestamp of tree: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 05:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24 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can you attach the output of running `qlist -vvv timezone-data` and make sure that `qcheck timezone-data` doesn't report any errors also run: find /usr/share/zoneinfo/ -type l cat /proc/mounts
Created attachment 374102 [details] Requested info Of course, all requested infos are attached in a single file
what if you: rm -rf /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix /usr/share/zoneinfo/.gentoo-upgrade emerge timezone-data emerge timezone-data
Yes, it solved it! Thank you very much!
Same thing happened here and the proposed solution solved it. Thanks.
I'm seeing the same thing, on a regular emerge world update (2013d -> 2014a).
lemongrass ~ # cd /usr/share/zoneinfo/ lemongrass zoneinfo # find -type l ./posix lemongrass zoneinfo # ls -l posix lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 May 15 12:23 posix -> . Same problem here, caused postgresql-8.4.20 to crash.
This is probably a duplicate of bug 318941.
i've tweaked the timezone-data pkg_setup logic to handle failed merged scenarios, so hopefully it should recover from whatever state your system is in now http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/timezone-data/timezone-data-2014e.ebuild?r1=1.2&r2=1.3
