Bug 552340 – emerge: failure in chroot without /dev is not very helpful

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Patrick Lauer 2015-06-17 02:57:37 UTC]

localhost / # emerge -auNDv world
[[: /dev/fd/63: No such file or directory
Failed to validate a sane '/dev'.
bash process substitution doesn't work; this may be an indication of a broken '/dev/fd'.
localhost / #

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2015-06-17 05:02:06 UTC]

It looks like we need to make it redirect the bash output to /dev/null here:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/pym/_emerge/main.py?h=v2.2.20#n1113

If it makes it to the bash test, then /dev/null should operate correctly...

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2015-06-17 05:25:54 UTC]

There's a patch in the following branch:

https://github.com/zmedico/portage/tree/bug_552340

I've posted it for review here:

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/25aad2979877577d342a96e795a45af7

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2015-06-17 06:57:56 UTC]

This is in the master branch:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=f5cdbf6af191c857b2c13455cb4d2d7b844c05f4

[Comment 4 Brian Dolbec (RETIRED) 2015-09-22 01:21:27 UTC]

Released in portage-2.2.21