Bug 31327 – XFree 4.3.0-r3 fails to emerge - portage argument error

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Brett I. Holcomb 2003-10-16 19:42:27 UTC]

I'm doing an upgrade to XFree after an emerge synch.  It goes for a long time 
then gives this error:

!!! copy 
/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.3.0-r3/image/usr/X11R6/man/man3/xXdbeGetVisualInfo.3x.gz 
-> /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XdbeGetVisualInfo.3x.gz failed.

!!! [Errno 22] Invalid argument

What argument????  Is the ebuild porked - I sure didn't give it any argument!  

The merge fails obviously and XFree is there again in the update world list.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-10-16 20:23:49 UTC]

what filesystem are you using ?

[Comment 2 Brett I. Holcomb 2003-10-17 04:51:52 UTC]

XFS.  However, all other ebuilds work without problem and I've merged XFree's
updates for the past nine months with no problem.

[Comment 3 Brett I. Holcomb 2003-10-23 06:57:18 UTC]

Any ideas on this?  I merged the new portage last night and still get the
errors.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2003-10-23 21:55:21 UTC]

well what if you:
touch /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XdbeGetVisualInfo.3x.gz
rm /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XdbeGetVisualInfo.3x.gz
touch /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XdbeGetVisualInfo.3x.gz

[Comment 5 Brett I. Holcomb 2003-10-24 07:23:46 UTC]

Bear with me - I'm a little confused.  I understand you want me to do these
two before the merge - correct?

touch /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XdbeGetVisualInfo.3x.gz
rm /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XdbeGetVisualInfo.3x.gz

I assume this next part come after I emerge the new Xfree?  If I rm it above
I can't touch it unless I merge Xfree>

touch /usr/X11R6/man/man3/XdbeGetVisualInfo.3x.gz

Thanks.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2003-10-24 13:36:14 UTC]

doesnt matter when you do it, i just wanted to verify that the file wasnt
messed and that the error is not filesystem related ... which you've done
;)

[Comment 7 Brett I. Holcomb 2003-10-24 18:01:46 UTC]

I haven't done anything yet so I went to that directory and checked it. 
Found some interesting things.  

I get:

ls: XdbeGetVisualInfo.3x.gz invalid argument

and there is a XdbeGetVisualInfo.3x.gz#new entry.

I'm going to run a file system check and see what happens.

[Comment 8 Brett I. Holcomb 2003-10-25 09:54:03 UTC]

I did an xfs_check and the xfs_repair.  The merged it and it went fine. 
Evidently there was a problem in the /usr filesystem.  That's a weird error
message and I haven't seen any other apps have problems so I would never
have thought it would be a filesystem problem.

Thank you.

[Comment 9 SpanKY 2003-10-25 10:08:58 UTC]

sounds good :)