pregame info: * Your boot partition was detected as being mounted as /boot. * Files will be installed there for grub to function correctly. root@rux0r root # mount | grep boot /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,data=writeback) emerge output: >>> /sbin/grub >>> /sbin/grub-install >>> /sbin/grub-md5-crypt >>> /sbin/grub-terminfo --- /bin/ >>> /bin/mbchk --- /boot/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1571, in ? mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 921, in merge retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,edebug) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1309, in doebuild return merge(settings["CATEGORY"],settings["PF"],settings["D"],settings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,myebuild=settings["EBUILD"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1539, in merge return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4033, in merge return self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3745, in treewalk if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,"",cfgfiledict,mymtime): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3913, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3907, in mergeme os.mkdir(mydest) OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/boot/grub' the end result is i have a /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/grub-0.93.20030118 directory but no files in it ...
You should _not_ be journalling /boot. Make it sync if you're worried about it. Portage is not getting the mode for that dir. Either something funky is going on with your partition/inodes or something freaky is going on with python/glibc.
i made ext3 outta habit ... oh and the partition is semi-messed up ... so dont worry about it ;)
