I'm trying to emerge net-dialup/isdn4k-utils-3.7_pre20050626. The build runs fine but the final installation step fails. I can emerge other packages just fine. Log: >>> net-dialup/isdn4k-utils-3.8_pre20050821 merged. net-dialup/isdn4k-utils selected: 3.7_pre20050626 protected: 3.8_pre20050821 omitted: none >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. >>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting... >>> (Control-C to abort)... >>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 >>> Unmerging net-dialup/isdn4k-utils-3.7_pre20050626... No package files given... Grabbing a set. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3222, in ? mydepgraph.merge(pkglist) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1960, in merge retval=unmerge("clean", [xsplit[0]]) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2250, in unmerge retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,mysettings,unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2951, in unmerge mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld,cleanup=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6210, in unmerge spawn("bzip2 -d "+self.dbdir+"/environment.bz2",self.settings,free=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1615, in spawn return portage_exec.spawn_bash(mystring,env=env,**keywords) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 48, in spawn_bash return spawn(args,env=env,opt_name=opt_name,**keywords) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 164, in spawn raise str(e)+":\n "+myc+" "+string.join(myargs) execve() arg 3 contains a non-string value: /bin/bash [isdn4k-utils-3.7_pre20050626] bash -c bzip2 -d /var/db/pkg/net-dialup/isdn4k-utils-3.7_pre20050626/environment.bz2 close failed: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3222, in ? mydepgraph.merge(pkglist) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1960, in merge retval=unmerge("clean", [xsplit[0]]) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2250, in unmerge retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,mysettings,unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2951, in unmerge mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld,cleanup=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6221, in unmerge a=doebuild(myebuildpath,"prerm",self.myroot,self.settings,cleanup=cleanup,use_cache=0,tree=self.treetype) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2651, in doebuild return spawn(EBUILD_SH_BINARY+" "+mydo,mysettings,debug=debug,free=1,logfile=logfile) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1615, in spawn return portage_exec.spawn_bash(mystring,env=env,**keywords) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 48, in spawn_bash return spawn(args,env=env,opt_name=opt_name,**keywords) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 164, in spawn raise str(e)+":\n "+myc+" "+string.join(myargs) execve() arg 3 contains a non-string value: /bin/bash [isdn4k-utils-3.7_pre20050626] bash -c /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh prerm close failed: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor !!! FAILED prerm: 1
You neglected to post emerge --info output.
(s)xanthippe# emerge --info Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 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: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks noinfo sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 acl apache2 apm berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdb cdr crypt eds emboss expat foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gstreamer imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mhash mp3 ncurses nls nptl objc ogg pam pcre pdflib perl png python readline samba slang spell sse ssl tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml2 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Reopen.
Please check that /var/db/pkg/net-dialup/isdn4k-utils-3.8_pre20050821/CONTENTS is not corrupted. See bug 46271. If your CONTENTS file is not corrupted please re-open. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46271 ***
Created attachment 76132 [details] CONTENTS file after fresh emerge
It looks like the CONTENTS file is ok, AFAICT.
fixed in portage
oops, wrong bug, sry :(
DO you still ahve this when rying to remerge?
Since the bug greport, I've upgraded to net-dialup/isdn4k-utils-3.9_pre20060124. While installing I had the same error again. I temporarily turned off autoclean in my make.conf and were able to upgrade. The bug is still there, though. Sidenote: in the meantime I had the chance to install isdn4k-utils on a fresh gentoo system. The bug didn't show up there :-(
The same happened to me with sys-devel/autoconf-2.59d: >>> Auto-cleaning packages... sys-devel/autoconf selected: 2.59d protected: 2.13 2.59-r7 omitted: none >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. >>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting... >>> (Control-C to abort)... >>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 >>> Unmerging sys-devel/autoconf-2.59d... No package files given... Grabbing a set. execve() arg 3 contains a non-string value: /bin/bash -c bzip2 -d /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/autoconf-2.59d/environment.bz2 execve() arg 3 contains a non-string value: /bin/bash -c /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh prerm !!! FAILED prerm: 1 Bug's 46271 comment 17 helped me find out that the KEYWORDS file got corrupted somehow with the following exact pattern that repeated itself 20 times or so: \x01p1I\x00\x00\x00\x00\x01\x109I\ Basically, lots of NULL chars - as in bug 46271. I solved it by copying the real keywords from the ebuild. I'm adding this in the hope that it might help to locate the reason for the corruption.
you can try to parse the CONTENTS file, remove all files in there, and remove the /var/db/pkg directory. Then you should have no more problems. I suggest to close this bug, does not seem to be reproduceable.
Closing.
