Bug 177802 – Unable to update/reinstall MySQL (CONTENTS corrupt)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description vad3R 2007-05-09 14:34:25 UTC]

Hi all,

ich have trouble getting MySQL updated/installed. Emerge runs fine almost until the end but then:

   usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.a
   usr/lib64/mysql/libmysys.a
   usr/lib64/mysql/libmyisam.a
   usr/lib64/mysql/libmystrings.a
   usr/lib64/mysql/libmyisammrg.a
   usr/lib64/mysql/libvio.a
   usr/lib64/mysql/libdbug.a
portage: CONTENTS line 8 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 10 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 12 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 14 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 15 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 17 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 18 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 20 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 21 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 23 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 24 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 26 corrupt!
>>> Merging dev-db/mysql-5.0.38 to /
--- /etc/
--- /etc/mysql/
portage: CONTENTS line 8 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 10 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 12 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 14 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 15 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 17 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 18 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 20 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 21 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 23 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 24 corrupt!
portage: CONTENTS line 26 corrupt!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5481, in ?
    retval = emerge_main()
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5476, in emerge_main
    myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4943, in action_build
    retval = mergetask.merge(pkglist, favorites, mtimedb)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3123, in merge
    prev_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3731, in doebuild
    vartree=vartree, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3939, in merge
    mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7834, in merge
    cleanup=cleanup, mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7430, in treewalk
    if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,"",cfgfiledict,mymtime):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7706, in mergeme
    join(offset, x), cfgfiledict, thismtime):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7706, in mergeme
    join(offset, x), cfgfiledict, thismtime):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7727, in mergeme
    if self.isprotected(mydest):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7182, in isprotected
    mydata = self._installed_instance.getcontents().get(filename, None)
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'

I looked into CONTENTS and there are very strange entries. I don't know where the come from. Snip from CONTENTS:

dir /etc
dir /etc/mysql
obj /etc/mysql/mysqlaccess.conf 1c49cbdee0aa247b06da56bb02e94e94 1177411870
obj /etc/mysql/my.cnf d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e 1177411870
dir /var
dir /var/lib
dir /var/lib/mysql

dir /var/lib/mysql
/var
dir /var/lib/mysql
/var/lib
dir /var/lib/mysql
/var/lib/run-mysqld6

dir /var/lib/mysql
/var/lib/run-mysqld6
/var
dir /var/lib/mysql
/var/lib/run-mysqld6
/var/lib
dir /var/lib/mysql
/var/lib/run-mysqld6
/var/lib/run-mysqld4
obj /var/lib/mysql
/var/lib/run-mysqld6
/var/lib/run-mysqld4/.keep_dev-db_mysql-0 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e 1177411870
dir /var/log
dir /var/log/mysql
obj /var/log/mysql/.keep_dev-db_mysql-0 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e 1177411870
dir /var/run
dir /var/run/mysqld
obj /var/run/mysqld/.keep_dev-db_mysql-0 d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e 1177411870
dir /usr
dir /usr/bin
obj /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation 540ef91785bec93508ca155588a8d09c 1177411870

The installation is aborted so i dont have MySQL anymore. Please help me fix this issue.

Thanks

Daniel

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge mysql
2. look how it fails
3.

Actual Results:  
No MySQL is installed.

Expected Results:  
MySQL should be installed

Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5-BackEnd-Build x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r5-BackEnd-Build x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            5120  @ 1.86GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 09 May 2007 13:30:09 +0000
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.15-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=opteron -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=opteron -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=""
FEATURES="ccache confcache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 isdnlog ldap libg++ midi mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl ppds pppd python readline reflection session snmp spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xml xml2 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark ati chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i810 mga neomagic nv rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo"
Unset:  CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-05-09 17:18:20 UTC]

Not really our fault that your CONTENTS file got corrupt, sorry.

[Comment 2 vad3R 2007-05-10 10:09:42 UTC]

But how could this happen? I never changed the file manually. Currently i'm unable to reinstall mysql. I'm looking for a solution. So what can i do to fix this?

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-05-10 12:14:45 UTC]

Either move the file away and re-emerge mysql, or fix it (stick dir prefix before dirs which are missing it etc).