I just updated my installation and hit this problem: [cut] >>> x11-libs/pango-1.8.2 merged. x11-libs/pango selected: 1.8.1 protected: 1.8.2 omitted: none [cut] --- !targe sym /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so --- !targe sym /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 --- !targe sym /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so * Updating scrollkeeper database ... * Updating shared mime info database ... *** * Updating MIME database in /usr/share/mime... *** !!! Unable to remove db entry for this package. !!! It is possible that a directory is in this one. Portage will still !!! register this package as installed as long as this directory exists. !!! You may delete this directory with 'rm -Rf /var/db/pkg/x11-libs/pango-1.8.1' !!! [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/db/pkg/x11-libs/pango-1.8.1/USE' # ls -la /var/db/pkg/x11-libs/pango-1.8.1 ls: /var/db/pkg/x11-libs/pango-1.8.1: No such file or directory # ls -la /var/db/pkg/x11-libs/pango-1.8.2/ total 172 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 1 12:06 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Sep 1 12:06 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 1 12:06 ASFLAGS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9 Sep 1 12:06 CATEGORY -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 Sep 1 12:06 CBUILD -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 1 12:06 CC -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Sep 1 12:06 CDEPEND -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 Sep 1 12:06 CFLAGS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 Sep 1 12:06 CHOST -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10708 Sep 1 12:06 CONTENTS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Sep 1 12:06 COUNTER -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 1 12:06 CTARGET -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 1 12:06 CXX -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21 Sep 1 12:06 CXXFLAGS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 205 Sep 1 12:06 DEPEND -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 1 12:06 EXTRA_ECONF -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 1 12:06 EXTRA_EINSTALL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 1 12:06 EXTRA_MAKE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44 Sep 1 12:06 FEATURES -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56 Sep 1 12:06 INHERITED -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 Sep 1 12:06 IUSE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 1 12:06 LDFLAGS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 1 12:06 LIBCFLAGS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 1 12:06 LIBCXXFLAGS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11 Sep 1 12:06 LICENSE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Sep 1 12:06 PDEPEND -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 Sep 1 12:06 PF -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 1 12:06 PKGUSE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 1 12:06 PROVIDE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105 Sep 1 12:06 RDEPEND -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Sep 1 12:06 RESTRICT -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 Sep 1 12:06 SLOT -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 991 Sep 1 12:06 USE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28549 Sep 1 12:06 environment.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1849 Sep 1 12:06 pango-1.8.2.ebuild #
Martin: For some reason /var/db/pkg/x11-libs/pango-1.8.1/USE is lost, so Portage doesn't continue. Does /var/db/pkg/x11-libs/pango-1.8.1/CONTENTS exist? Portage devs: I wonder about the USE error message. Shouldn't the existance of CONTENTS suffice?!
Hi Carsten, the whole directory did not exist. Unfrtunately I did not include the whole emerge output, but I had a look for the directory in emerge output to see where it deleted the contents ... it simply was not in the output. Also, after the emerge died I looked for the directory as I said and it was gone. I have no clue what happened. I hope someone else will hit the same problem.
Running two emerge instances in parallel perhaps?
No, definitely I had only one instance. But, I aggree that this report is not much helpful to track down a problem. sorry. :(
Please reopen if you get more info.
Closing due to old age
