Created attachment 303897 [details] System information I tried building packages on two disjoint sets of packages (@world rebuild, plus mplayer compilation) on two separate iMacs that have NFS mounted home directories. The PORTAGE_TMPDIR was on the local disk while the Prefix install was in the NFS mounted home directory. One machine had the follow occur and it continued compiling: !!! Unable to read COUNTER file: '/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/var/cache/edb/counter' !!! [Errno 70] Stale NFS file handle: '/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/var/cache/edb/counter' The other had the following failure: >>> Jobs: 3 of 33 complete, 17 running Load avg: 27.1, 18.5, 8.9open('/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/etc/profile.env', 'r'): [Errno 70] Stale NFS file handle: '/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/etc/profile.env' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/bin/emerge", line 44, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 2031, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 442, in action_build retval = mergetask.merge() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1002, in merge rval = self._merge() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1352, in _merge self._main_loop() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/PollScheduler.py", line 148, in _main_loop self.sched_iface.iteration() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/util/_eventloop/EventLoop.py", line 166, in iteration if not x.callback(f, event, *x.args): File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/SpawnProcess.py", line 173, in _output_handler self.wait() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 53, in wait self._wait_hook() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 146, in _wait_hook self._exit_listener_stack.pop()(self) File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/EbuildMerge.py", line 58, in _merge_exit self.wait() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 53, in wait self._wait_hook() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 146, in _wait_hook self._exit_listener_stack.pop()(self) File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/CompositeTask.py", line 134, in _default_final_exit return self.wait() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 53, in wait self._wait_hook() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 146, in _wait_hook self._exit_listener_stack.pop()(self) File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1244, in _merge_exit self._schedule() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/PollScheduler.py", line 134, in _schedule self._schedule_tasks() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1516, in _schedule_tasks if self._schedule_tasks_imp(): File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1581, in _schedule_tasks_imp task = self._task(pkg) File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1649, in _task settings=self._allocate_config(pkg.root), File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1481, in _allocate_config temp_settings.reload() File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/config.py", line 1817, in reload env_d = getconfig(env_d_filename, expand=False) File "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/util/__init__.py", line 548, in getconfig encoding=_encodings['fs'], errors='strict'), 'rb') IOError: [Errno 70] Stale NFS file handle: '/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/etc/profile.env'
(In reply to comment #0) > "/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/util/__init__.py", > line 548, in getconfig > > encoding=_encodings['fs'], errors='strict'), 'rb') > > IOError: [Errno 70] Stale NFS file handle: > '/home/stufs1/ryao/Gentoo/etc/profile.env' Maybe we can handle this ESTALE like an EAGAIN errr, and just retry until it succeeds.
(In reply to comment #1) > Maybe we can handle this ESTALE like an EAGAIN errr, and just retry until it > succeeds. That should work.