After running eix-sync, I've tried to install few packages, including portage. After installing several of them, emerge stopped emerging. Now, I cannot emerge any package. For instance, trying to emerge portage would get: >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.27 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 1976, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 438, in action_build retval = mergetask.merge() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1073, in merge rval = self._merge() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1427, in _merge self._main_loop() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1570, in _main_loop while self._schedule(): File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/PollScheduler.py", line 104, in _schedule return self._schedule_tasks() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1609, in _schedule_tasks if q.schedule(): File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/SequentialTaskQueue.py", line 55, in schedule task.start() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 24, in start self._start() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/MergeListItem.py", line 91, in _start self._start_task(build, self._default_final_exit) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/CompositeTask.py", line 146, in _start_task task.start() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 24, in start self._start() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/EbuildBuild.py", line 33, in _start rval = _check_temp_dir(settings) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py", line 1059, in _check_temp_dir fd = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(prefix="exectest-", dir=checkdir) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 447, in NamedTemporaryFile (fd, name) = _mkstemp_inner(dir, prefix, suffix, flags) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 228, in _mkstemp_inner fd = _os.open(file, flags, 0600) OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/var/tmp/portage/exectest-OMGf4d' The list of last packages I've installed: $ genlop -l | tail Thu Oct 6 15:51:07 2011 >>> app-text/calibre-0.8.21 Wed Oct 12 18:06:25 2011 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.27 Wed Oct 12 18:06:27 2011 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.27 Wed Oct 12 18:06:56 2011 >>> sys-libs/timezone-data-2011l Wed Oct 12 18:07:01 2011 >>> app-misc/editor-wrapper-4 Wed Oct 12 18:07:15 2011 >>> kde-base/kde-env-4.7.2 Wed Oct 12 18:07:24 2011 >>> app-admin/logrotate-3.8.1 Wed Oct 12 18:07:37 2011 >>> sys-apps/debianutils-4.0.3 Wed Oct 12 18:07:55 2011 >>> dev-libs/chmlib-0.40-r1 I thought it might be broken portage, so I've downloaded and unpacked portage-2.1.10.22, but the same problem remains. I suspect something with debianutils (/bin/tempfile). Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.10.22 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.0.0 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.0.0-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_Q_720_@_1.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:30:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.6 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p10 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.7-r2, 2.7.2-r3, 3.2.2 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.6 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.5-r2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.6, 4.5.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r3 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo multimedia science bicatali portage-local ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /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" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache collision-protect distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j4" 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/layman/multimedia /usr/portage/local/layman/science /usr/portage/local/layman/bicatali /usr/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cjk cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri fortran gdbm gpm htmlhandbook iconv immqt-bc lm_sensors mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pcre pppd readline semantic-desktop session sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vim-syntax xcomposite xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
(In reply to comment #0) > [...] > > I thought it might be broken portage, so I've downloaded and unpacked > portage-2.1.10.22, but the same problem remains. This shouldn't be your first thought when something breaks. > I suspect something with > debianutils (/bin/tempfile). More likely a filesystem or hardware problem. You should run a filesystem check.
(In reply to comment #1) > More likely a filesystem or hardware problem. You should run a filesystem > check. You were right: filesystem.
