Bug 490782 – Running emerge randomly fails with "OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/tmp/portage/../.ipc_lock'" in lxc container

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Uwe L. Korn 2013-11-08 21:34:24 UTC]

While I hoped to streamline my qt5-package development using Docker/lxc, I have randomly on every second package install this error, e.g:

OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/tmp/portage/perl-core/Test-Simple-0.980.0/.ipc_lock'

Rerunning the same emerge call my work for this package but stops often randomly on another package.



Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Uwe L. Korn 2013-11-08 21:35:07 UTC]

Created attachment 362814 [details]
Full back trace

[Comment 2 Uwe L. Korn 2013-11-08 21:36:03 UTC]

# emerge -qvp sys-apps/portage
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/portage-2.2.7  USE="(ipc) -build -doc -epydoc (-pypy2_0) -python2 -python3 (-selinux) -xattr" LINGUAS="-ru" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2 (-pypy2_0) -python2_6 (-python3_3) (-python3_4)"

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2014-11-07 18:25:25 UTC]

(In reply to Uwe L. Korn from comment #0)
> While I hoped to streamline my qt5-package development using Docker/lxc, I
> have randomly on every second package install this error, e.g:
> 
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> '/var/tmp/portage/perl-core/Test-Simple-0.980.0/.ipc_lock'
> 
> Rerunning the same emerge call my work for this package but stops often
> randomly on another package.

This seems like possible a kernel issue. The open call that's failing specifies os.O_CREAT (as shown in the traceback), so it looks like the kernel or filesystem is failing to create the file.

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2014-11-07 20:35:58 UTC]

Please specify details about the kernel version and filesystem.