12127 – IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

Bug 12127 - IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

Summary: IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Nicholas Jones (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-12-13 18:40 UTC by Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED)
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-13 18:40:31 UTC

I seem to get this every now and then. Started happening after the last portage
upgrade:

sys-apps/portage-2.0.45-r4

Its not much to go on. Let me know if I can provide more information.

In this example, I had just re-emerged ExtUtils-MakeMaker

>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
>>> Auto-cleaning packages ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1672, in ?
    unmerge("clean", ["world"])
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1195, in unmerge
    slotmap[myslot][localtree.dbapi.cpv_counter(mypkg)]=mypkg
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2554, in cpv_counter
    counter=long(cfile.readline())
IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

Comment 1 Matthew Kennedy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-14 00:08:22 UTC

never mind... the cause was just a run-of-the-mill ext3 filesystem corruption :(