After emerging portage on my stage1 install I got this: Recalculating the counter... FAILED to update counter. !!! This is a problem. >>> Clearing invalid entries in dependency cache... ...done! Seems to be solved since -r21 though, at least I didn't get it the last times but I'm unsure if it could come back or not. To mtimedb: emerge rsync Invalid or unset record 'packages' in mtimedb. Invalid or unset record 'eclass' in mtimedb. etc-update Deleting invalid mtimedb key: packages Deleting invalid mtimedb key: eclass eupdatedb Deleting invalid mtimedb key: packages Deleting invalid mtimedb key: eclass I have no idea whatsoever what's causing this, the rescue portage didn't help either, also another thing which is odd, emerge info tells me I got portage 2.0.49-r20 while I'm sure I have -r21 installed (output of emerge -pv portage). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.1-rc1-mm1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1-rc1-mm1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/c onfig /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.r wth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp:// ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distri butions/gentoo" 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" USE="X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb crypt cups dvd encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk 2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk t cpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
etcat -v your_package Invalid or unset record 'packages' in mtimedb. Invalid or unset record 'eclass' in mtimedb. emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r20 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.6.1-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.1-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm avi cdr crypt cups directfb dvd encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg libwww mad mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python quicktime samba sdl sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
btw portage is r21 don't know why emerge info reported r20
emerge sync and emerge portage.
I get this error now too. I've tried the 'emerge sync; emerge portage' fix but that didn't seem to work for me. I've also tried moving the mtimedb file to a temp location. The file was recreated, but the error remained. I've tried a few other things that have been posted in the forums but none of that worked either. I originally found the problem while trying to re-emerge packages that were affected by a USE flags change. I get the following output everytime regardless of what I do to 'fix it'. ------------- click root # emerge -p --oneshot --nodeps =media-libs/libao-0.8.3-r1 Deleting invalid mtimedb key: eclass Deleting invalid mtimedb key: packages These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-libs/libao-0.8.3-r1
I still get this with sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r21 klippie jean # etcat belongs /bin/bash Invalid or unset record 'packages' in mtimedb. Invalid or unset record 'eclass' in mtimedb. Searching for /bin/bash in * ... app-shells/bash-2.05b-r5 AFAIK I'm on the latest portage, and I've just 'emerge sync'd klippie jean # emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r21 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.8p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ise.co.za http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo rsync://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cscope cups curl dga dvd encode esd flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mcal mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl plotutils png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sqlite ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb x86 xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib"
