When I try to update the portage cache using portage-2.1_pre9-r5 (by using emerge --metadata, for example), the update fails, and always at the same point. The output I get is: >>> Updating Portage cache: 34%Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2921, in ? cache.util.mirror_cache(source, cm, pdb.auxdb[porttree_root], eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py", line 38, in mirror_cache if long(trg["_mtime_"]) == long(entry["_mtime_"]) and eclass_cache.is_eclass_data_valid(trg["_eclasses_"]): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 32, in __getitem__ return self.orig[key] File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 77, in __getitem__ self.d.update(self.pull()) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 29, in callit return args[0](*args[1:]+args2) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 44, in _pull d = self._parse_data(myf, cpv) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 53, in _parse_data d = dict(map(lambda x:x.rstrip().split("=", 1), data)) IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error My emerge --info looks like: Portage 2.1_pre9-r5 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-suspend2-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-suspend2-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1200MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 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: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/gentopia" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acpi alsa avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli crypt cups dbus dri dvd eds emacs emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imlib input_devices_keyboard isdnlog java jikes jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nfs nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pam_console pcmcia pcre pdflib perl pic png pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode video_cards_i810 vorbis win32codecs xml2 xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
(In reply to comment #0) > IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error It seems like there's some trouble reading your disk. I would check the disk for bad blocks and filesystem corruption.
Sorry about that, I was stupid. It's a hard drive issue. I recently went to ~x86 portage, and assumed that was the problem...
*** Bug 141274 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
