Updating to dev-vcs/mercurial-1.6.4 fails in testing due to: OSError: [Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links: '/gentoo/tmp/portage/dev-vcs/mercurial-1.6.4/temp/tests-2.6/child3/test-mq-symlinks/linka' The traceback below does not show up in the build log. >>> Source compiled. * Testing of dev-vcs/mercurial-1.6.4 with CPython 2.6... ........................................s.............s..........................s..........................................................................................................................................................................................................s................................................................................... Skipped test-convert-p4: missing feature: Perforce server and client Skipped test-casefolding: missing feature: case insensitive file system Skipped test-convert-p4-filetypes: missing feature: Perforce server and client Skipped test-no-symlinks: system supports symbolic links # Ran 368 tests, 4 skipped, 0 failed. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1683, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 441, in action_build retval = mergetask.merge() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1085, in merge rval = self._merge() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1403, in _merge self._main_loop() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1552, in _main_loop self._poll_loop() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/PollScheduler.py", line 138, in _poll_loop handler(f, event) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/EbuildIpcDaemon.py", line 79, in _input_handler reply_hook() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AbstractEbuildProcess.py", line 149, in _exit_command_callback self.scheduler.schedule(self._reg_id, timeout=self._exit_timeout) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/PollScheduler.py", line 232, in _schedule_wait handler(f, event) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/SpawnProcess.py", line 203, in _output_handler self._unregister_if_appropriate(event) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AbstractPollTask.py", line 49, in _unregister_if_appropriate self.wait() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 41, in wait self._wait_hook() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 114, in _wait_hook self._exit_listener_stack.pop()(self) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/EbuildPhase.py", line 142, in _ebuild_exit _post_phase_userpriv_perms(settings) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py", line 1189, in _post_phase_userpriv_perms filemode=0o60, filemask=0) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/util/__init__.py", line 980, in apply_recursive_permissions uid=uid, gid=gid, mode=filemode, mask=filemask) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/util/__init__.py", line 1005, in apply_secpass_permissions stat_cached = os.stat(filename) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 226, in __call__ rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs) OSError: [Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links: '/gentoo/tmp/portage/dev-vcs/mercurial-1.6.4/temp/tests-2.6/child3/test-mq-symlinks/linka'
Created attachment 249513 [details] build log
Created attachment 249514 [details] emerge --info
The contents of the failing directory: sudo ls -l --color /gentoo/tmp/portage/dev-vcs/mercurial-1.6.4/temp/tests-2.6/child3/test-mq-symlinks/ total 12 -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 4 Oct 3 21:27 b -rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage 4 Oct 3 21:27 c lrwxrwxrwx 1 portage portage 5 Oct 3 21:27 linka -> linka lrwxrwxrwx 1 portage portage 6 Oct 3 21:27 linkb -> linkbb -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 4 Oct 3 21:27 s
Please test mercurial >= 1.7.
It's still there for me. Looking at this again, it doesn't appear to be an error in mercurial, but, rather, an error in portage. It looks like emerge is recursively descending into the test directory, hitting the recursive symlink, and crashing. Perhaps this should be reassigned to portage. Thanks, Erik emerge --version Portage 2.2.0_alpha8 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.5.1, glibc-2.12.1-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r3-fglrx x86_64) <tail of build output> >>> Source compiled. * Testing of dev-vcs/mercurial-1.7.2 with CPython 2.7... ..........................................s.......s..................................s..............s.......................................................................................................... ..........................................s........................................................................................................... Skipped test-casefolding.t: missing feature: case insensitive file system Skipped test-convert-p4-filetypes: missing feature: Perforce server and client Skipped test-no-symlinks: system supports symbolic links Skipped test-check-code-hg.py: cannot check code on non-repository sources Skipped test-convert-p4: missing feature: Perforce server and client # Ran 376 tests, 5 skipped, 0 failed. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1700, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 443, in action_build retval = mergetask.merge() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1160, in merge rval = self._merge() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1478, in _merge self._main_loop() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1620, in _main_loop self._poll_loop() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/PollScheduler.py", line 138, in _poll_loop handler(f, event) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/EbuildIpcDaemon.py", line 82, in _input_handler reply_hook() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AbstractEbuildProcess.py", line 149, in _exit_command_callback self.scheduler.schedule(self._reg_id, timeout=self._exit_timeout) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/PollScheduler.py", line 232, in _schedule_wait handler(f, event) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/SpawnProcess.py", line 203, in _output_handler self._unregister_if_appropriate(event) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AbstractPollTask.py", line 49, in _unregister_if_appropriate self.wait() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 41, in wait self._wait_hook() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 114, in _wait_hook self._exit_listener_stack.pop()(self) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/EbuildPhase.py", line 148, in _ebuild_exit _post_phase_userpriv_perms(settings) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py", line 1207, in _post_phase_userpriv_perms filemode=0o60, filemask=0) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/util/__init__.py", line 1018, in apply_recursive_permissions uid=uid, gid=gid, mode=filemode, mask=filemask) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/util/__init__.py", line 1043, in apply_secpass_permissions stat_cached = os.stat(filename) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 226, in __call__ rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs) OSError: [Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links: '/gentoo/tmp/portage/dev-vcs/mercurial-1.7.2/temp/tests-2.7/child0/test-mq-symlinks.t/linka'
Zac: could you take a look at this build log?
I've fixed portage to avoid the issue by using lstat instead of stat: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=31e8a00dae63f956cec892cecb016a511de122fc
Created attachment 257086 [details, diff] patch for portage
(In reply to comment #8) > Created an attachment (id=257086) [details] > patch for portage > That fixed it! Thanks, Erik
(In reply to comment #9) Thanks for testing. That patch is included in sys-apps/portage-2.2.0_alpha8.
Awesome! Thanks Zac.
This is fixed in portage-2.1.9.26.
