Hi there! i'm currently running xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 for quite a long time allready i get an error ehn i try to update xorg-x11. i tried the following: - meanwhile various versions of xorg-x11: 6.8.0-r5, 6.8.2, 6.8.2-r1, 6.8.2-r2, 6.8.99.8 - meanwhile different versions of portage - a complete fresh x86 install - a complete fresh ~x86 install - a complete recompile of current system - RAM is checked and ok - different harddisks and filesystems - different kernels the error remains the same: it starts compiling with a little strange message: * Previous xorg-x11 installation NOT detected. then compiles cleanly, and on merge to / it fails always at exactly the same point with --- /etc/X11/twm/ >>> /etc/X11/twm/system.twmrc --- /etc/X11/xdm/ >>> /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole >>> /etc/X11/xdm/TakeConsole >>> /etc/X11/xdm/._cfg0000_Xaccess >>> /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources >>> /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers >>> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession >>> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 >>> /etc/X11/xdm/Xwilling Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3074, in ? mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1848, in merge retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2651, in doebuild return merge(mysettings["CATEGORY"],mysettings["PF"],mysettings["D"],mysettings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,mysettings,myebuild=mysettings["EBUILD"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2823, in merge return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6834, in merge return self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild,cleanup=cleanup) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6447, in treewalk if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,"",cfgfiledict,mymtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6699, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6699, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6699, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6624, in mergeme mydest = new_protect_filename(myrealdest, newmd5=portage_checksum.perform_md5(srcroot+myabsto)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksum.py", line 25, in perform_md5 return perform_checksum(x, md5hash, calc_prelink)[0] File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksum.py", line 128, in perform_checksum myhash, mysize = hash_function(myfilename) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksum.py", line 75, in md5hash return fchksum.fmd5t(filename) IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.99.8/image//var/lib/xdm' here is an meanwhile pretty old forum post which discribes what all i tried: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-307484 regarding xorg 6.8.2 many people told me to be happy with 6.8.0, but anyways this is annoying, cause rest of the system works flawlessly Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge xorg-x11 Actual Results: portage fails on merge with: IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-6.8.99.8/image//var/lib/xdm' Expected Results: it should merge propperly Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.12-rc5-rtpp2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-rc5-rtpp2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#2, Mar 14 2005, 19:28:41)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.5, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.14 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo" LANG="de_DE@euro" LC_ALL="de_DE@euro" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/gimpel /usr/local/overlays/fluidportage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X aalib alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdparanoia cdr codecs crypt cups curl directfb divx4linux dvd dvdread emboss encode esd faac faad fbcon flac foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gimp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal imagemagick imlib ithreads jack java jpeg junit kde kdexdeltas libg++ libwww mad matroska mbrola mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pdflib perl png postgres pthreads python qt quicktime readline ruby scanner sdl shadow slang sndfile spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67515 ***
