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Bug 5516

Summary: emerge merge fails
Product: Gentoo Infrastructure Reporter: robbin bonthond <rbonthond>
Component: BugzillaAssignee: John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) <zhen>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description robbin bonthond 2002-07-24 14:23:06 UTC
using:  
* portage 2.0.13  
* gentoolkit 0.1.15-r1  
  
after a emerge -u world my portage fails at every merge:  
  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1270, in ?  
    mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist())  
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 634, in merge  
    retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,edebug)  
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1154, in doebuild  
    return  
merge(settings["CATEGORY"],settings["PF"],settings["D"],settings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,myebuild=settings["EBUILD"])  
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1379, in merge  
    mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild)  
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3648, in merge  
    self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild)  
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3324, in treewalk  
    packagecounter=long(globalcounterfile.readline())  
ValueError: invalid literal for long():  
  
- i have removed /tmp/sandboxpids.tmp  
- i tried /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/portage-rescue-2.0.10-x86.tbz2,  
no luck  
- checked /var/cache/edb, no wierd things except that counter contains "0x00 
0x00 0x00", nothing more. 
 
 
could someone help me ?
Comment 1 robbin bonthond 2002-07-24 14:29:49 UTC
qpkg -nc -I | wc -l | sed 's/ //g' > /var/cache/edb/counter 
 
fixed it ... all works again.