Bug 193548

Summary:	More desctiptive error message than "error scanning /etc"
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Adam Bishop <adam>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	2.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	194041

Description Adam Bishop 2007-09-23 16:53:34 UTC

I spent approximately 10 hours trying to track down an issue with portage, which turned out to be a problem with the slocate bd being corrupted.

Support thread here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-583703.html

Nowhere in the documentation is it mentioned what this error could mean, and google'ing only found a few causes, none of them what happened in this case.

Would it be possible to state why scanning /etc failed?  Or at least, write a line to the log file (I'd have thought an error would have been important enough to be logged to /var/log/emerge.log

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-09-28 18:18:23 UTC

In svn r7871 it's fixed to show the output from the failed find command.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-09-28 23:18:06 UTC

This has been released in 2.1.3.11.