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Bug 327871

Summary: ccache does not make any integrity check
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP <dhp_gentoo>
Component: [OLD] baselayoutAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 10.0   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2010-07-12 01:21:18 UTC 
I had a system freese during a merge. After reboot, emerge failed. Three times, until I think about flusing ccache.

Here was the error i got:

  CC     rotate.lo
  CC     scale.lo
  CC     script.lo
  CC     span.lo
  CC     updates.lo
  CC     ximage.lo
  CCLD   libImlib2.la
.libs/color_helpers.o: file not recognized: File truncated
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [libImlib2.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/imlib2-9999/work/imlib2/src/lib'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/imlib2-9999/work/imlib2/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/imlib2-9999/work/imlib2'
make: *** [all] Error 2
 * Using user server for live sources: http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk
 * This is a LIVE SOURCES ebuild.
 * That means there are NO promises it will work.
 * If it fails to build, FIX THE CODE YOURSELF
 * before reporting any issues.
 * ERROR: media-libs/imlib2-9999 failed:
 *   emake failed
!!! SEND BUG REPORTS TO enlightenment@gentoo.org NOT THE E TEAM
 *

I was lucky to think about ccache. But, the error should be printed a different way. First, the gcc/ldd error message should tell that it "could" be a ccache issue. But any way, ccache should include more cheks about file validity.

I am using ext4 over RAID5, with 2.6.34. I did not determine yet the reason of the freese; it happens only since a few days, since I activated my full X (I always had 3 video cards, but they were not configured yet in X); so, it may be a PSU problem being not powerfull enough. Then, I expect ext4 FS could not properly sync disks in time, or that the journal was not comitted properly.

I am not saying that ccache should store CRC for every single file; but it should at least store the size of data somewhere, or make basic checks (not send empty data, or a lib that would not contain description of all functions that are listed in it's header ... ) ...

... or, when gcc fails, it should try to re-build the source once with some kind of no-cache option.

I found this in 10mn, but a beginner could loose several days on this.

Yes i know media-libs/imlib2-9999 is from a layman and not in portage, but, really, i don't care: this bug could have happen with any ebuild in portage.
Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-07-12 05:55:12 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 79519 ***