sev 0 :-) emerge -up world: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies /Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2517, in ? if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1109, in xcreate myeb=portage.portdb.xmatch("bestmatch-visible",mydep) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4690, in xmatch myval=best(self.xmatch("match-visible",None,mydep,mykey)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4701, in xmatch myval=match_from_list(mydep,self.xmatch("list-visible",None,mydep,mykey)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4687, in xmatch myval=self.gvisible(self.visible(self.cp_list(mykey))) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4782, in gvisible myaux=db["/"]["porttree"].dbapi.aux_get(mycpv, ["KEYWORDS"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4535, in aux_get if doregen or not self.eclassdb.is_current(cat,pkg,self.auxdb[cat][pkg]["INH ERITED"].split()): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4380, in is_current self.setup_package(cat, pkg) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4357, in setup_package self.packages[cat] = self.dbmodule(self.cachedir, cat+"-eclass", [], uid, po rtage_gid) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_db_cpickle.py", line 23, in __init__ self.db = mypickle.load() EOFError This recently occurred to me after an emerge sync. The first time I can remember it occurring is today's sync, and I last synced up on Wednesday or Thursday. The box is relatively fresh, having just had Gentoo installed recently. I have re-emerged portage to no effect.
I ran an emerge regen, and the following information started to shed some light on the situation: processing app-xemacs/xemacs-eterm processing app-xemacs/xemacs-ispell processing app-xemacs/xslide processing app-xemacs/xslt-process processing app-xemacs/zenirc processing dev-ada/adabindx error processing dev-ada/adabindx-0.7.2, continuing... processing dev-ada/adabroker error processing dev-ada/adabroker-1.0_pre4, continuing... processing dev-ada/adadoc error processing dev-ada/adadoc-2.01, continuing... processing dev-ada/adaopengl error processing dev-ada/adaopengl-0.12, continuing... processing dev-ada/adasockets error processing dev-ada/adasockets-1.7-r1, continuing... processing dev-ada/asis error processing dev-ada/asis-3.15p, continuing... processing dev-ada/aunit error processing dev-ada/aunit-1.01, continuing... processing dev-ada/booch_components error processing dev-ada/booch_components-20030815, continuing... processing dev-ada/cbind error processing dev-ada/cbind-6, continuing... processing dev-ada/charles error processing dev-ada/charles-20030813, continuing... processing dev-ada/florist error processing dev-ada/florist-3.15p, continuing... processing dev-ada/garlic error processing dev-ada/garlic-3.15p-r1, continuing... processing dev-ada/gps-bin error processing dev-ada/gps-bin-1.2.2, continuing... processing dev-ada/gtkada error processing dev-ada/gtkada-2.2.0-r1, continuing... Still no fix.
It continues to do the information in #2 for every package in the list. python: Python 2.3.3 (#1, May 19 2004, 16:50:12) [GCC 3.3.2 20031218 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r5, propolice-3.3-7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.6-rc1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6-rc1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
It appears that removing /var/cache/edb/* fixed this problem. I'm still not entirely certain what happened - perhaps the pickle file got corrupted.
