At the end of the output of eix-sync (eix is version 0.15.4): Number of files: 135068 Number of files transferred: 794 Total file size: 177760504 bytes Total transferred file size: 4575807 bytes Literal data: 4575807 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 3172886 File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 56893 Total bytes received: 4764161 sent 56893 bytes received 4764161 bytes 10870.47 bytes/sec total size is 177760504 speedup is 36.87 Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2009 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' #='/var/db update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' %='binary move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' ................................................................... ERROR: Malformed update entry 'slotmove =ati-drivers-9.6 0 1' q: Updating ebuild cache ... q: Finished 26331 entries in 0.275862 seconds Above you see the error. If it may interest you, below is the rest of the tail of the output of eix-sync: * Copying old /var/cache/eix cache to /var/cache/eix.previous * Running update-eix Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. [0] "gentoo" /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-flat) Reading 100% [1] "" /usr/local/jorgeportage (cache: parse|ebuild*) Reading 100% Applying masks .. Calculating hash tables .. Writing database file /var/cache/eix .. Database contains 13725 packages in 153 categories. * Calling diff-eix Diffing databases (13708 - 13725 packages) [>] == dev-libs/cyrus-sasl (2.1.22-r2(2) -> 2.1.23(2)): The Cyrus SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer). [>] == dev-tex/tex4ht (20081103_p0302 -> 20090513_p1511): Converts (La)TeX to (X)HTML, XML and OO.org [>] == dev-util/git (1.6.0.6 -> 1.6.3.3): GIT - the stupid content tracker, the revision control system heavily used by the Linux kernel team [><] == dev-util/kscope (1.4.2 -> 1.4.2(3.5)): KScope is a KDE front-end to Cscope. [>] == media-video/avidemux (2.4.3(2)!t -> 2.4.4-r2(2)!t): Video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks [>] == net-analyzer/nagios-core (3.0.6-r1 -> 3.0.6-r2): Nagios Core - Check daemon, CGIs, docs [U] == sys-libs/glibc (2.8_p20080602-r1(2.2)@08-03-2009; 2.8_p20080602-r1(2.2)!s -> 2.9_p20081201-r2(2.2)!s): GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library [N] >> app-misc/klavaro (~1.2.1): Another free touch typing tutor program [N] >> dev-perl/App-Nopaste (~0.11): easy access to any pastebin [N] >> dev-perl/AutoXS-Header (~1.02): Container for the AutoXS header files [N] >> dev-perl/Capture-Tiny (~0.06): Capture STDOUT and STDERR from Perl, XS or external programs [N] >> dev-perl/Class-Data-Accessor (~0.04004): Inheritable, overridable class and instance data accessor creation [N] >> dev-perl/Class-XSAccessor-Array (~1.04): Generate fast XS accessors without runtime compilation [N] >> dev-perl/Email-Sender (~0.091740): A library for sending email [N] >> dev-perl/File-BOM (~0.14): Utilities for handling Byte Order Marks [N] >> dev-perl/JSON-XS-VersionOneAndTwo (~0.31): Support versions 1 and 2 of JSON::XS [N] >> dev-perl/Net-UPnP (~*1.41): Perl extension for UPnP [N] >> dev-perl/WWW-Pastebin-PastebinCom-Create (~0.002): paste to <http://pastebin.com> from Perl [N] >> media-sound/vmpk (~*0.2.5): Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard [N] >> net-fs/samba-client ([M]~3.3.6!t): Libraries from Samba [N] >> net-fs/samba-libs ([M]~3.3.6!t): Libraries from Samba [N] >> net-fs/samba-server ([M]~3.3.6!t): Libraries from Samba [N] >> net-misc/qtm (~1.1!s): Qt4 blogging client [N] >> x11-libs/gtkdatabox (~0.9.1.1): Gtk+ Widgets for live display of large amounts of fluctuating numerical data * Time statistics: 459 seconds for syncing 94 seconds for update-eix 2 seconds for diff-eix 555 seconds total And below the output of emerge --info: Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.27.24 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27.24-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2600+-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:15:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.12 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/local/slowpart/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--nospinner" FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo http://mirrors.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/" LANG="pt_BR" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/local/slowpart/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="/usr/local/slowpart/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/jorgeportage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X aalib acpi alsa aotuv bash-completion bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdio cdr cli cracklib dbus dvd dvdr dvdread emacs emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gif glibc-omitfp gnuplot gnutls gpm gstreamer gzip-el hddtemp iconv imap isdnlog jpeg libcaca libsamplerate logrotate lzma mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng moznopango mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap ncurses network-cron nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf png ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl session sox speex spell spl sse ssl svg symlink sysfs tcpd theora tiff toolkit-scroll-bars truetype unicode usb v4l2 vorbis x264 x86 xml xorg xosd xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="cmipci" 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Already fixed...
I have recently resynced and got the same problem. Timestamp of tree is Timestamp of tree: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:15:02 Maybe I waited too little and my mirror hasn't updated yet. Anyway, could anyone please inform me of what damage (if any) this may have caused to my system? These are my binary packages: packages # ls All doomsday-1.9.0_beta52.tbz2 gnash-0.8.4.tbz2 initng-ifiles-9999.tbz2 libsvg-cairo-0.1.6.tbz2 Scalar-List-Utils-1.19.tbz2 faac-1.26-r1.tbz2 gtkglarea-1.2.3-r1.tbz2 IO-String-1.08.tbz2 pingus-0.7.2.tbz2 stellarium-0.8.2.tbz2 findcruft2-20080831.tbz2 gtkglarea-1.99.0.tbz2 libmp4v2-1.5.0.1.tbz2 plib-1.8.4-r1.tbz2 fsv-0.9.tbz2 initng-0.6.10.2.tbz2 libsvg-0.1.4.tbz2 samba-3.0.33.tbz2 The file Packages lists more packages than that, probably because I manually delete binary packages (I delete the package in All and the link to it that resides in another directory).
Okey since i caused this :( i think i know solution just run as root: rm /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2009 and try again the sync.
I am afraid of damaging my system. Is your solution safe and after I execute it will my system be in a perfect state?
Yes it wont kill anything, just distable the broken slotupdate, and will fix itself with next sync.
OK, now I synced and Portage didn't complain. What I meant by "fear of damage" was the fear that this error might have caused some permanent damage to the system. Can you point me to some documentation so I can understand what are these upgrades and how they work? Preferably something I can read in less than an hour.
OK, it seems the fix did indeed solve the problem and the system was not damaged (I read some portage code). Closing as FIXED. Thank you all.
