000001 *** emerge unmerge --verbose --nospinner app-admin/sudo *** 000002 000003 app-admin/sudo 000004 selected: 1.6.8_p9 1.6.8_p9-r2 000005 protected: none 000006 omitted: none 000007 000008 >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 000009 >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. 000010 000011 >>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting... 000012 >>> (Control-C to abort)... 000013 >>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 000014 >>> Unmerging app-admin/sudo-1.6.8_p9... 000015 No package files given... Grabbing a set. 000016 Traceback (most recent call last): 000017 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2954, in ? 000018 if 1==unmerge(myaction, myfiles): 000019 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2251, in unmerge 000020 retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,mysettings,unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"]) 000021 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2901, in unmerge 000022 mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld,cleanup=1) 000023 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6119, in unmerge 000024 spawn("bzip2 -d "+self.dbdir+"/environment.bz2",self.settings,free=1) 000025 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1603, in spawn 000026 return portage_exec.spawn_bash(mystring,env=env,**keywords) 000027 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 48, in spawn_bash 000028 return spawn(args,env=env,opt_name=opt_name,**keywords) 000029 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 164, in spawn 000030 raise str(e)+":\n "+myc+" "+string.join(myargs) 000031 execve() arg 3 contains a non-string value: 000032 /bin/bash [sudo-1.6.8_p9] bash -c bzip2 -d /var/db/pkg/app-admin/sudo-1.6.8_p9/environment.bz2 000033 Traceback (most recent call last): 000034 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2954, in ? 000035 if 1==unmerge(myaction, myfiles): 000036 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2251, in unmerge 000037 retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,mysettings,unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"]) 000038 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2901, in unmerge 000039 mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld,cleanup=1) 000040 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6130, in unmerge 000041 a=doebuild(myebuildpath,"prerm",self.myroot,self.settings,cleanup=cleanup,use_cache=0,tree="vartree") 000042 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2611, in doebuild 000043 return spawn(EBUILD_SH_BINARY+" "+mydo,mysettings,debug=debug,free=1,logfile=logfile) 000044 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1603, in spawn 000045 return portage_exec.spawn_bash(mystring,env=env,**keywords) 000046 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 48, in spawn_bash 000047 return spawn(args,env=env,opt_name=opt_name,**keywords) 000048 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 164, in spawn 000049 raise str(e)+":\n "+myc+" "+string.join(myargs) 000050 execve() arg 3 contains a non-string value: 000051 /bin/bash [sudo-1.6.8_p9] bash -c /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh prerm 000052 !!! FAILED prerm: 1 000053 *** process completed *** Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --unmerge app-admin/sudo 2. 3. troll ~ # emerge --info admin-app/sudo Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE@euro" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 apm arts atk audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bl bootsplash browserplugin bzip2 ccache cdr cpudetection crypt cups curl dmx doc dvd dvdr dvdread ecc eds emboss encode esd fam fat fbcon font-server foomaticdb fortran freetds gatos gd gdbm gif glibc-omitfp gnokii gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hpn i8x0 idea ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ithreads java jikes jpeg junit kde libclamav libg++ libwww linuxthreads-tls logitech-mouse mad mailwrapper mikmod mmx motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg multislot mysql ncurses nls no-old-linux ntfs ogg oggvorbis opengl openssh openssl osc pam pam_console pcre pdflib perl png posix postgres python qt quicktime readline recode reiserfs rtc sdl sendmail shared sharedmem smime sockets spell sql sse sse2 ssl subtitles sybase sybase-ct sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vim vim-pager vim-with-x vorbis wifi xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_i810 linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
tarball up /var/db/pkg/app-admin/sudo-1.6.8_p9 , and post it here. You've got corruption in your vdb entry, marking as cantfix in the meantime, since it's not something portage can fix.
Created attachment 70534 [details] tarball of /var/db/pkg/app-admin/sudo-1.6.8_p9 note: i can do "emerge --unmerge sudo-1.6.8_p9-r2" without problems. I thin you are right ... my var-partition was defekt week's ago. is it possible to "rebuild" the var-db?
your DEPEND is corrupted, invalid chars in it. echo '' > /var/db/pkg/app-admin/sudo-1.6.8_p9/DEPEND ; then unmerge sudo-1.6.8_p9 should solve it. Don't leave the DEPEND empty like that long term though, it's not a good idea; the trick above just nukes the corruption by emptying the file, but that'll screw up portage's dependency tracking for -D. Regarding rebuilding the vdb (/var/db/pkg), nope, you're pretty much boned if fs corrupts it.
