Bug 113088 – portage-2.0.53_rc7 has problems with bin-pkgs and "Performing Global Updates"

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Markus Meier 2005-11-20 08:24:21 UTC]

Sometimes after emerge --sync, when Gloal Updates are performed, Portage has a
problem with my binary packages.
When I umount my packages directory, the global updates are performed in a
second, without problems.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge --sync
2. (emerge -> "Performing Global Updates:")

Actual Results:  
>>> Updating Portage cache:  100%



Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2005
(Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
  .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
  s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*'
...............***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************Traceback
(most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2767, in ?
    reload(portage)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7480, in ?
    do_upgrade(mykey)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7412, in do_upgrade
    db["/"]["bintree"].update_ents(myupd,settings["PORTAGE_TMPDIR"]+"/tbz2")
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5884, in update_ents
    fixdbentries(mylist[1], mylist[2], mytmpdir)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4005, in fixdbentries
    f = open(dbdir+"/"+myfile, "r")
IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory

The content of "/var/tmp/tbz2":
/var/tmp/tbz2/:
total 164
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1 2005-11-20 17:09 ASFLAGS
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     9 2005-11-20 17:09 CATEGORY
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    18 2005-11-20 17:09 CBUILD
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1 2005-11-20 17:09 CC
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     4 2005-11-20 17:09 CDEPEND
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    43 2005-11-20 17:09 CFLAGS
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    18 2005-11-20 17:09 CHOST
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1 2005-11-20 17:09 CTARGET
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1 2005-11-20 17:09 CXX
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    43 2005-11-20 17:09 CXXFLAGS
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1000 2005-11-20 17:09 DEPEND
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 40254 2005-11-20 17:09 environment.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1 2005-11-20 17:09 EXTRA_ECONF
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1 2005-11-20 17:09 EXTRA_EINSTALL
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1 2005-11-20 17:09 EXTRA_MAKE
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    93 2005-11-20 17:09 FEATURES
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    76 2005-11-20 17:09 INHERITED
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    48 2005-11-20 17:09 IUSE
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1 2005-11-20 17:09 LDFLAGS
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1 2005-11-20 17:09 LIBCFLAGS
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1 2005-11-20 17:09 LIBCXXFLAGS
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   398 2005-11-20 17:09 libkmime-3.5_beta1.ebuild
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     6 2005-11-20 17:09 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     4 2005-11-20 17:09 PDEPEND
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    19 2005-11-20 17:09 PF
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1 2005-11-20 17:09 PKGUSE
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1 2005-11-20 17:09 PROVIDE
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   136 2005-11-20 17:09 RDEPEND
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1 2005-11-20 17:09 RESTRICT
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     4 2005-11-20 17:09 SLOT
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 2005-11-20 17:09 tbz2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   835 2005-11-20 17:09 USE

/var/tmp/tbz2/tbz2:
total 4
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1 2005-11-20 17:09 ASFLAGS
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 2005-11-20 17:09 CATEGORY

I don't really know if this is a problem with the binary package, because I also
 tried to remove all these packages, but that didn't really help.

Expected Results:  
Probably the portage code should check if the "file" is really a file or a
directory...

This error happens on my 2 systems, the binary packages are shared via NFS. 

# emerge --info 
Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3,
2.6.14-suspend2-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-suspend2-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre10
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.13
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env
/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
/etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms
strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/"
LANG="en_IE@euro"
LINGUAS="en de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb
bidi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr clamav crypt css cups curl dbus divx4linux dts dvd
dvdr dvdread eds emboss ethereal exif expat ffmpeg font-server foomaticdb
fortran freetype gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal
hardenedphp idn ieee1394 imlib ipv6 jack jack-tmpfs java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal
lcms libclamav libg++ libwww live logitech-mouse mad maildir mikmod mmx mng mono
motif mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls
no-htdocs nptl nvidia oav ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib
perl php png python qt quicktime readline real samba screen sdl spell sse sse2
ssl stream subversion svg tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts udev usb vcd vlm vorbis wifi win32codecs wxwindows xine xinerama
xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib linguas_en linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2006-02-17 11:40:53 UTC]

At the moment I'm not sure how that /var/tmp/tbz2/tbz2 directory got there but you can probably work around the problem with a simple `rm -rf /var/tmp/tbz2/tbz2`.

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2006-02-18 21:44:06 UTC]

The /var/tmp/tbz2/tbz2 directory is created during a slotmove of a binary package.      There is a fix in svn revision 2743.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2006-02-26 14:39:12 UTC]

Released in 2.1_pre5.