Bug 138972 – confcache broken with recent portage updates

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description lothalev 2006-07-03 02:09:26 UTC]

Most recent portage updates caused confcache to stop working properly. It outputs errors similar to those:

/usr/bin/confcache --confcache-ignore /var/tmp/.distcc --confcache-dir /var/tmp/confcache ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --without-xscreensaver --without-java --with-x --enable-mitshm --without-xinerama --with-qt-dir=/usr/qt/3 --enable-mt --with-qt-libraries=/usr/qt/3/lib --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-debug --without-debug --disable-final --without-arts --prefix=/usr/kde/3.5 --mandir=/usr/kde/3.5/share/man --infodir=/usr/kde/3.5/share/info --datadir=/usr/kde/3.5/share --sysconfdir=/usr/kde/3.5/etc --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/confcache", line 549, in ?
    sys.exit(c.run(args))
  File "/usr/bin/confcache", line 182, in run
    elif not self._verify_files():
  File "/usr/bin/confcache", line 289, in _verify_files
    for f, chksum in self.file_db.iteritems():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/UserDict.py", line 101, in iteritems
    yield (k, self[k])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/shelve.py", line 119, in __getitem__
    value = Unpickler(f).load()
EOFError

!!! ERROR: kde-base/kdesktop-3.5.3-r1 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1545:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 940:   Called src_compile
  kdesktop-3.5.3-r1.ebuild, line 46:   Called kde-meta_src_compile
  kde-meta.eclass, line 410:   Called kde_src_compile
  kde.eclass, line 164:   Called kde_src_compile 'all'
  kde.eclass, line 306:   Called kde_src_compile 'myconf' 'configure' 'make'
  kde.eclass, line 288:   Called econf '--without-xscreensaver' '--without-java' '--with-x' '--enable-mitshm' '--without-xinerama' '--with-qt-dir=/usr/qt/3' '--enable-mt' '--with-qt-libraries=/usr/qt/3/lib' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--disable-debug' '--without-debug' '--disable-final' '--without-arts' '--prefix=/usr/kde/3.5' '--mandir=/usr/kde/3.5/share/man' '--infodir=/usr/kde/3.5/share/info' '--datadir=/usr/kde/3.5/share' '--sysconfdir=/usr/kde/3.5/etc'
  ebuild.sh, line 541:   Called die

!!! econf failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.

emerge --info:

Portage 2.1.1_pre2-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-ck11 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-ck11 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1400MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  0.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0.0_rc1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4m -O2 -pipe -mfpmath=sse"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4m -pipe -mfpmath=sse"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig confcache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS="pl"
MAKEOPTS=""
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa apache2 apm avi bzip2 cdr crypt dlloader dri elibc_glibc exif fam foomaticdb gif glut gtk2 hal i8x0 isdnlog jpeg kde kdexdeltas kernel_linux lcms mad memlimit mmx mmxext mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nls no-old-linux nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib png posix pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl sse ssl theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis wifi x86 xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics input_devices_evdev linguas_pl userland_GNU video_cards_i810 video_cards_i915"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2006-07-03 09:33:23 UTC]

rm -rf /var/tmp/confcache

That happens from time to time, not related to portage.