>>> Emerging (1 of 1) gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.24.3-r1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild", line 59, in <module> import portage File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 18, in <module> import logging ValueError: bad marshal data * Fetch failed for 'gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.24.3-r1', Log file: * '/var/log/portage/gnome-base:gnome-desktop-2.24.3-r1:20090422-084832.log' I have tried reverting to portage 2.2_rc30 by restoring the binary package from /usr/portage/packages but it gives the same error. emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc31 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-rc2-00429-gd91dfbb i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-rc2-00429-gd91dfbb-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8200_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2, 2.6.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" FEATURES="buildsyspkg distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/ http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_GB en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa apache2 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl cvs cxx dbus doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd evo examples expat fam ffmpeg flac fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal htmlhandbook iconv idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility ldap libnotify libsamplerate logrotate lzo mad midi mikmod mmap mmx mng mono mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png postgres ppds pppd pulseaudio python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcl tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xattr xcb xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel-hda" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa fbdev nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Additional information. This only happened after I synced this morning. The very same version of portage (which was installed on 20 April) was working correctly after yesterday's daily sync.
Don't know what marshalling data is. But, is this still an issue?
(In reply to comment #2) > Don't know what marshalling data is. But, is this still an issue? > Yes, it is still an issue. I have just run emerge --sync again and get the same failure when attempting to emerge anything.
I suspect that /usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.pyo is corrupt. You can force regeneration of the *py[co] files like this: x=/usr/lib/python2.6 find $x -name '*.py[co]' | xargs rm -f python -c "from compileall import compile_dir; compile_dir('$x')" python -O -c "from compileall import compile_dir; compile_dir('$x')"
Thanks, it is working now. That just leaves the question of how python got corrupted - but that is an entirely different matter. Maybe a risk that is taken using bleeding edge git kernels :)
I have no idea how, but this error happened on a new hardened-selinux box, only it was portage itself that was somehow corrupted. The "ValueError: bad marshal data" happened on the import of the portage manifest module. It took the same brute-force fix as in comment #4 to fix it (only replace /usr/lib/python2.6 with /usr/lib/portage). Now all is well...
