31904 – emerge -p rpm fails after system crash, everything else works OK

Bug 31904 - emerge -p rpm fails after system crash, everything else works OK

Summary: emerge -p rpm fails after system crash, everything else works OK

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 31901

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2003-10-24 03:53 UTC by david wende
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description david wende 2003-10-24 03:53:12 UTC

Some sort of system crash whilst doing emerge rpm (about 5 packages needed). 
After reboot, emerge -p rpm gives: 
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These are the packages that I would merge, in order: 
 
Calculating dependencies ...done! 
Traceback (most recent call last): 
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2133, in ? 
    mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist()) 
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1103, in display 
    elif (not "--emptytree" in myopts) and 
portage.db[x[1]]["vartree"].exists_specific_cat(x[2]): 
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3469, in exists_specific_cat 
    self.invalidentry(self.root+"var/db/pkg/"+a[0]+"/"+x) 
AttributeError: vartree instance has no attribute 'invalidentry' 
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Doing an emerge sync and emerge regen does NOT help. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -p rpm 
2. 
3. 
Actual Results:  
get error message in details above. 

Expected Results:  
given list of actions

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-24 07:21:00 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31901 ***