Bugzilla Bug 243022

Im mering ebuilds for old libs and GTK+ fails. See the attachment for more info

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge @preserved-rebuild




Portage 2.2_rc12 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0,
2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================               
System uname:
Linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r4-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_4400+-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 06:07:02 +0000                              
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33                                                    
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6                                              
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r8                                        
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6                                                   
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2                                                      
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0                                                      
sys-apps/openrc:     0.3.0-r1                                                   
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2                                                
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2                                              
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1        
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3                                                    
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4                                                  
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26                                                     
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3                                                  
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"                                                         
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"                                                    
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"                                                    
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"                                                     
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release
/etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/
/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo
/etc/udev/rules.d"                                                              
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe"                                                  
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"                                                
FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms
strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"             
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"                       
LDFLAGS=""                                                                      
LINGUAS="it"                                                                    
MAKEOPTS="-j2"                                                                  
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"                                                  
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles
--exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"                                           
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"                                                       
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"                                                          
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl alsa amd64 arts berkdb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd
fortran gdbm glitz gpm hal iconv iee1394 ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde midi mmx
mp3 mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl
php png pppd python qt3 qt4 readline reflection samba session spl sse sse2 ssl
svg tcpd truetype unicode usb xcomposite xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000
atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x         ens1370 ens1371 es1938
es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3    trident usb-audio via82xx
via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop
empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul
mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions
alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default
authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner
authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env
expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info
log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magicnegotiation proxy proxy_ajp
proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status
unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard
mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216
lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv
vesa vga"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG,
LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

Created an attachment (id=169282) [details]
Error message

  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 5975, in merge
    mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 3541, in merge
    mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 3549, in _merge
    cleanup=cleanup, mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 3085, in
treewalk
    if self.mergeme(srcroot, destroot, outfile, secondhand, "", cfgfiledict,
mymtime):
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 3421, in mergeme
    join(offset, x), cfgfiledict, thismtime):
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 3421, in mergeme
    join(offset, x), cfgfiledict, thismtime):
  File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 3303, in mergeme
    mydstat = os.lstat(mydest)
OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/etc/gtk-2.0/im-multipress.conf'

This error suggests that
/var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4/image/etc/gtk-2.0/im-multipress.conf
might be a directory, which might indicate some sort of filesystem corruption.
Is it a directory or not? If it is a directory, does rebuilding
x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4 result in the same error?

(In reply to comment #3)
> This error suggests that
> /var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4/image/etc/gtk-2.0/im-multipress.conf
> might be a directory, which might indicate some sort of filesystem corruption.
> Is it a directory or not? If it is a directory, does rebuilding
> x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4 result in the same error?
> 

It is not a directory but as header file says: Configuration File for the GTK+
Multipress Input Method

There's probably dome sort of problem in the merging of the /etc/gtk-2.0/
directory. Does that directory exist on you system or not? The error seems to
suggest that this directory failed to be created.

(In reply to comment #5)
> There's probably dome sort of problem in the merging of the /etc/gtk-2.0/
> directory. Does that directory exist on you system or not? The error seems to
> suggest that this directory failed to be created.
> 

Its a file not a directory :S Maybe is that the problem?

Yes, it needs to be a directory. Do you know how that file got there? You can
solve the problem by removing it. Anyway, portage needs to detect cases like
this and handle them more intelligently.

In svn r11920 it's fixed to move broken symlinks out of the way if necessary
when merging directories.

This is fixed in 2.2_rc15.