The root fs is mounted twice. Any attempts to create directories (untar a tar source, using emerge et al) are executed twice as well and the second creating fails. Example 1: server root # tar xfvz cyrus-smlacapd-0.5.x86-linux.tar.gz cyrus-smlacapd-0.5/ TAR stops untarring the archive after creating the dir. Example 2: Using MC creating a dir MC fails with a "File exists (17)" error. Nevertheless MC created the dir. Example 3: server root # /usr/sbin/python-updater * Starting Python Updater from 2.2 to 2.3 : * Searching for packages with files in /usr/lib/python2.2 .. Adding to list: dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 Adding to list: media-libs/lcms-1.12 * Calculating Upgrade Package List .. * Re-ordering packages to merge .. * Preparing to merge these packages in this order: dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 media-libs/lcms-1.12 * Starting to merge (1/2) dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 .. Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 to / Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2599, in ? mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1551, in merge retval=portage.doebuild(y,"clean",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,cleanup=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2157, in doebuild os.makedirs(mysettings["T"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/os.py", line 154, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/tmp/portage/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1/temp' * Failed merging dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 (1/2)! * Starting to merge (2/2) media-libs/lcms-1.12 .. Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/lcms-1.12 to / Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2599, in ? mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1551, in merge retval=portage.doebuild(y,"clean",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,cleanup=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2157, in doebuild os.makedirs(mysettings["T"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/os.py", line 154, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/tmp/portage/lcms-1.12/temp' * Failed merging media-libs/lcms-1.12 (2/2)! * * ************************************************************ * * Packages that still need to be manually emerged : * * ************************************************************ * * Failed Packaged: * ---------------- * These packages have failed and need to be re-emerged again. * Alternatively, try re-running this script again to see if it * can be fixed. * * emerge -p \=dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 \=media-libs/lcms-1.12 * My log contain symtoms of related trouble: Postfix deliver twice. Amavis fails on creating any dir the second time. My mounts `mount`: /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) My mounts `cat /proc/mounts`: rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root /tmp/.initrd ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/sda6 / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 My grub.conf: timeout 10 default 0 title Gentoo Linux (2.4.24-xfs-r1) root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.24-xfs-r1 init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda6 splash=verbose vga=0x317 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.24-xfs-r1 I used genkernel 3.0.1_beta11 to build and install the kernel. I can log in to my machine using SSH. All read ops perform smoothly -- even when I use emerge. But writing ops use to fail: emerge sync, python-updater ... I
The root fs is mounted twice. Any attempts to create directories (untar a tar source, using emerge et al) are executed twice as well and the second creating fails. Example 1: server root # tar xfvz cyrus-smlacapd-0.5.x86-linux.tar.gz cyrus-smlacapd-0.5/ TAR stops untarring the archive after creating the dir. Example 2: Using MC creating a dir MC fails with a "File exists (17)" error. Nevertheless MC created the dir. Example 3: server root # /usr/sbin/python-updater * Starting Python Updater from 2.2 to 2.3 : * Searching for packages with files in /usr/lib/python2.2 .. Adding to list: dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 Adding to list: media-libs/lcms-1.12 * Calculating Upgrade Package List .. * Re-ordering packages to merge .. * Preparing to merge these packages in this order: dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 media-libs/lcms-1.12 * Starting to merge (1/2) dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 .. Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 to / Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2599, in ? mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1551, in merge retval=portage.doebuild(y,"clean",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,cleanup=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2157, in doebuild os.makedirs(mysettings["T"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/os.py", line 154, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/tmp/portage/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1/temp' * Failed merging dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 (1/2)! * Starting to merge (2/2) media-libs/lcms-1.12 .. Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/lcms-1.12 to / Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2599, in ? mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1551, in merge retval=portage.doebuild(y,"clean",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,cleanup=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2157, in doebuild os.makedirs(mysettings["T"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/os.py", line 154, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/tmp/portage/lcms-1.12/temp' * Failed merging media-libs/lcms-1.12 (2/2)! * * ************************************************************ * * Packages that still need to be manually emerged : * * ************************************************************ * * Failed Packaged: * ---------------- * These packages have failed and need to be re-emerged again. * Alternatively, try re-running this script again to see if it * can be fixed. * * emerge -p \=dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 \=media-libs/lcms-1.12 * My log contain symtoms of related trouble: Postfix deliver twice. Amavis fails on creating any dir the second time. My mounts `mount`: /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) My mounts `cat /proc/mounts`: rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root /tmp/.initrd ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/sda6 / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 My grub.conf: timeout 10 default 0 title Gentoo Linux (2.4.24-xfs-r1) root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.24-xfs-r1 init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda6 splash=verbose vga=0x317 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.24-xfs-r1 I used genkernel 3.0.1_beta11 to build and install the kernel. I can log in to my machine using SSH. All read ops perform smoothly -- even when I use emerge. But writing ops use to fail: emerge sync, python-updater ... I´m forced to discontinue my mail server (Postfix, Cyrus IMAPd) to avoid data losses. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.24-xfs-r1) =============================================================== == System uname: 2.4.24-xfs-r1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/ bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/ gentoo" 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="apache2 apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imap imlib innodb ipv6 java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pg-hier pg-intdatetime pg-vacuumdelay png postgres python quicktime readline samba sasl sdl slang slp spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Some details on "My log contain symtoms of related trouble: Postfix deliver twice. Amavis fails on creating any dir the second time": I'm using daemonized fetchmail to get my mail, Postfix as my MTA and a Cyrus IMAPd. Postfix can deliver new mail to Cyrus (deffered). Nevertheless I can fetch my emails using my Mac OS X client machine using Mail.app and store these mails in my Cyrus IMAPd maildir using the same client app.
This bug report is (mostly) comparable to bug 38360. But I have __severe troubles__ writing to disk that disable my mail server!
To help myself, I tried to boot my kernel without initrd: /boot/grub.conf: ======== timeout 10 default 0 fallback 1 title Gentoo Linux (2.4.24-xfs-r1 w/o initrd) root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.24-xfs-r1 root=/dev/sda6 splash=verbose vga=0x317 title Gentoo Linux (2.4.24-xfs-r1) root (hd0,0) kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.4.24-xfs-r1 init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda6 splash=verbose vga=0x317 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd-2.4.24-xfs-r1 `mount` says: ======== /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) `cat /proc/mounts`: ======== rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 This did not help: I still have trouble to create dirs using MC and myriads of Postfix defer messages in my logs.
Further investigation: Only creating dir generates an error, creating a file succeeds: server TEST # ll total 0 server TEST # mkdir TESTDIR mkdir: cannot create directory `TESTDIR': File exists server TEST # ll total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 14 16:15 TESTDIR server TEST # rmdir TESTDIR server TEST # ll total 0 server TEST # touch TESTFILE server TEST # ll total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 14 16:16 TESTFILE server TEST #
EXTRA WEIRED: My probs seem not to relate to a "root mounted twice" bug: server root # cd /boot/ server boot # mkdir TEST mkdir: cannot create directory `TEST': File exists Creating a dir makes trouble on a non root filesystem (/boot).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39143 ***
