it crashes with message every time after emerge --sync: cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption: app-doc/chmlib-0.37.4 is corrupt: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required my emerge --info (i think it's unneeded here, but...): Portage 2.1_pre6-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 VIA Samuel 2 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=c3 -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=c3 -pipe" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" <skip> Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, MAKEOPTS
Please attach the contents of /var/cache/edb/dep/${PORTDIR}/app-doc/chmlib-0.37.4 and ${PORTDIR}/metadata/cache/app-doc/chmlib-0.37.4 for troubleshooting. If python gave you a traceback with program line numbers, that would also be helpful. (In reply to comment #0) > my emerge --info (i think it's unneeded here, but...): The `emerge --info` output is often essential for portage bugs.
I have the same error: >>> Updating Portage cache: 34%Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2828, in ? cache.util.mirror_cache(source, cm, pdb.auxdb[porttree_root], eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py", line 44, in mirror_cache if entry.get("INHERITED",""): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/UserDict.py", line 158, in get return self[key] File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 32, in __getitem__ return self.orig[key] File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 77, in __getitem__ self.d.update(self.pull()) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 29, in callit return args[0](*args[1:]+args2) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 47, in _pull raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e) cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption: dev-php5/ZendFramework-0.1.2 is corrupt: dictionary update sequence element #2 has length 1; 2 is required Contents of /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/dev-php5/ZendFramework-0.1.2: _eclasses_=depend.php /usr/portage/eclass 1137845143 multilib /usr/portage/eclass 1141922163 eutils /usr/portage/eclass 1142033769 portability /usr/portage/eclass 1141850196 php-lib-r1 /usr/portage/eclass 1132450539 LICENSE=ZendFramework PROVIDE= RESTRICT=nostrip PDEPEND= SRC_URI=http://framework.zend.com/releases/ZendFramework-0.1.2.tar.gz KEYWORDS=~x86 RDEPEND==dev-lang/php-5* dev-lang/php SLOT=0 EAPI= DEPEND==dev-lang/php-5* !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) dev-lang/php DESCRIPTION=Zend Framework is a high quality and open source framework for developing Web Applications and Web Services with PHP 5. IUSE= CDEPEND= HOMEPAGE=http://framework.zend.com/ Contents of /usr/portage/metadata/cache/dev-php5/ZendFramework-0.1.2: =dev-lang/php-5* dev-lang/php >=dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6 !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) >=dev-php/PEAR-Benchmark-1.2.2-r1 >=dev-php/PEAR-Log-1.8.7-r1 dev-php5/xdebug =dev-lang/php-5* dev-lang/php >=dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6 0 http://pear.php.net/get/PHPUnit2-2.3.5.tgz http://www.phpunit.de/ BSD Unit Testing framework for PHP 5. ~amd64 ~sparc ~x86 php-pear-r1 multilib portability eutils depe My emerge --info: Portage 2.1_pre6-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -s" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx -pipe -s" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://src.gentoo.pl http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl" LANG="pl_PL" LC_ALL="pl_PL" LINGUAS="pl en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" ... Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LDFLAGS
My /usr/portage/metadata/cache/app-doc/chmlib-0.37.4 was empty, even after --sync'ing. When I cleaned /usr/portage and synced, emerge --metadata stopped crashing.
I need to clean up the cache error handling. Until this is fixed, the recommend workaround is to `rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep && emerge --metadata`. If that doesn't help, please comment.
(In reply to comment #4) > I need to clean up the cache error handling. Until this is fixed, the > recommend workaround is to `rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep && emerge --metadata`. > If that doesn't help, please comment. I have the same error at dev-python/twisted-mail-0.2.0. And your workaround doesn't help, regretfully. After removing the cache directory, `emerge --metadata` failed with twisted-mail again. What should I do next. my `emerge --info`: Portage 2.1_pre7-r5 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16-gentoo i586) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r6, 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19-r1, 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k6-3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k6-3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig digest distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org/" LANG="ja_JP.eucJP" LINGUAS="ja en it de fr es nl zh ko nb sv ru" MAKEOPTS="-j2 -l2.5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /opt/portagejp" SYNC="rsync://rsync.jp.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" USE="x86 3dnow X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cjk crypt cups doc dri eds emacs emboss encode foomaticdb fortran freewnn gcl gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib isdnlog jpeg leim libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_ja linguas_en linguas_it linguas_de linguas_fr linguas_es linguas_nl linguas_zh linguas_ko linguas_nb linguas_sv linguas_ru userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS /var/cache/edb/dep/${PORTDIR}/dev-python/ has no directory twisted-mail. `cat /usr/portage/metadata/cache/dev-python/twisted-mail-0.2.0`: >=dev-python/twisted-2.1 >=dev-python/twisted-names-0.2.0 !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) virtual/python !bootstrap? ( sys-devel/patch ) >=dev-python/twisted-2.1 >=dev-python/twisted-names-0.2.0 0 http://tmrc.mit.edu/mirror/twisted/Mail/0.2/TwistedMail-0.2.0.tar.bz2 http://www.twistedmatrix.com/ MIT A Twisted Mail library, server and client. ~alpha ~ia64 ~sparc ~x86 alternatives python multilib portability eutils distutils versionator twisted
(In reply to comment #5) > I have the same error at dev-python/twisted-mail-0.2.0. > And your workaround doesn't help, regretfully. > After removing the cache directory, > `emerge --metadata` failed with twisted-mail again. > What should I do next. The problem disappeared a few days after, an emerge --sync successfully ended without any efforts. I couldn't and can't know the reason, but anyway it's working now.
In svn r3313 I've added some error handling to catch the CacheCorruption error so that the corruption will be reported but a traceback will no longer occur.
This has been released in 2.1_pre10-r3.
