I installed twice the 2.2_rc29 portages and I had every time this error. emerge -vauDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies -Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 40, in <module> retval = _emerge.emerge_main() File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 15942, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 14723, in action_build mydepgraph = depgraph(settings, trees, myopts, myparams, spinner) File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 4626, in __init__ vardb.aux_get(pkg.cpv, []) File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 1266, in _aux_get_wrapper self._portdb.aux_get(pkg, self._portdb_keys))) File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/porttree.py", line 486, in aux_get mydata, st, emtime = self._pull_valid_cache(mycpv, myebuild, mylocation) File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/porttree.py", line 442, in _pull_valid_cache del auxdb[cpv] File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/cache/template.py", line 96, in __delitem__ self._delitem(cpv) File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/cache/metadata_overlay.py", line 63, in _delitem value = self[cpv] # validates whiteout and/or raises a KeyError when necessary File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/cache/metadata_overlay.py", line 36, in __getitem__ return self.db_ro[cpv] # raises a KeyError when necessary File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/cache/template.py", line 38, in __getitem__ d=self._getitem(cpv) File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/cache/flat_hash.py", line 31, in _getitem d = self._parse_data(myf, cpv) File "//usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/cache/metadata.py", line 63, in _parse_data raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e) CacheCorruption: media-sound/phonon-4.3.1 is corrupt: 'toolchain-funcs' I do not understand too because with the rc28 everything works, I put my emerge - info emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc29 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r1-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_940_Processor-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p17 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2, 2.6.1-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo/etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/" LANG="fr_CH.UTF-8" LC_ALL="fr_CH.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common,--as-needed" LINGUAS="fr fr_CH" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/dev/shm" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/x11 /usr/local/portage/layman/mozilla /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-testing /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo fam firefox fortran gif gpm gtk hal iconvisdnlog java jpeg kde kdeprefix ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="*" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr fr_CH" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonhd" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Thank you in advance for your help and good day
You should remove the metadata_overlay setting that you have in /etc/portage/modules. You don't need that because FEATURES=-metadata-transfer gives you the behavior that you want (it's the default setting since portage-2.1.5.x).
(In reply to comment #1) > You should remove the metadata_overlay setting that you have in > /etc/portage/modules. You don't need that because FEATURES=-metadata-transfer > gives you the behavior that you want (it's the default setting since > portage-2.1.5.x). > Yes that's right, so it is not a bug and we can close it, thank you very much.
This is fixed in svn r13329.
This is fixed in 2.2_rc30.