On Wednesday 01 June 2005 22:13, Kevin Bucknum wrote:
> This has happened before, but it usually clears up after a sync or two.
> It hasn't for the last couple weeks,  and I'd like to get the box back
> up to date, and maybe give the new KDE a try.  Every time I sync I get:
>
> Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2005
> (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
>   .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
>   s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update
> /etc/portage/package.*'
> ........................................................................
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 10, in ?
>     import portage
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7306, in ?
>     do_upgrade(mykey)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7197, in do_upgrade
>     db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.move_ent(mysplit)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4593, in move_ent
>     fixdbentries(origcp, newcp, pkgdir)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3875, in fixdbentries
>     f = open(dbdir+"/"+myfile, "r")
> IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory
>
> Any idea what to look for?

$ find /var/db/pkg -mindepth 3 -type d

Any results that returns shouldn't be there. I'd be interested in what it does 
return though.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs

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