12728 – "emerge sync" fails while "Updating Portage cache" with traceback

Bug 12728 - "emerge sync" fails while "Updating Portage cache" with traceback

Summary: "emerge sync" fails while "Updating Portage cache" with traceback

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

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

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

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Reported:	2002-12-26 05:21 UTC by Timo Boettcher
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:18 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Timo Boettcher 2002-12-26 05:21:33 UTC

When I run "emerge sync", it seems to sync normally, but when it updates the portage cache, I 
get:

>>> Updating Portage cache... /Traceback (most recent calls last):
  File 
"/usr/bin/emerge", line 1573, in ?
    shutil.copy(newdbkey,curdbkey)
  File 
"/usr/lib/python2.2/shutil.py", line 62, in copy
    copyfile(src, dst)
  File 
"/usr/lib/python2.2/shutil.py", line 29, in copyfile
    fdst = open(dst,

Comment 1 Timo Boettcher 2002-12-26 05:21:33 UTC

When I run "emerge sync", it seems to sync normally, but when it updates the portage cache, I 
get:

>>> Updating Portage cache... /Traceback (most recent calls last):
  File 
"/usr/bin/emerge", line 1573, in ?
    shutil.copy(newdbkey,curdbkey)
  File 
"/usr/lib/python2.2/shutil.py", line 62, in copy
    copyfile(src, dst)
  File 
"/usr/lib/python2.2/shutil.py", line 29, in copyfile
    fdst = open(dst, ´wb´)
IOError: 
[Errno 5] Input/Output error: ´/var/cache/edb/dep//app-xemacs/edebug-1.14´

This is on 
Portage 2.0.46-r2 and is reproducible.

Comment 2 Timo Boettcher 2002-12-26 08:53:15 UTC

klasikahl suugested in #gentoo to do
rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/app-xemacs/edebug*
and 
emerge sync again.
that works.