KH <gentoo-user <at> konstantinhansen.de> writes:
> James Ausmus wrote: > > 1. Check your disk space, make sure it's not full Not a problem... > > 2. As root, do a chown -R portage:portage /var/cache/edb > add the -c to chown > -c, --changes > like verbose but report only when a change is made Many of the files were owned by root:portage Now they are owned by portage:portage, but that did not fix the error: calculating world dependencies \Traceback (most recent call last) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6518, in ? retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6512, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5813, in action_build mydepgraph = depgraph(settings, trees, myopts, myparams, spinner) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1174, in __init__ vardb.aux_get(pkg, self._mydbapi_keys)))) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 948, in _aux_get_wrapper self._portdb.aux_get(pkg, self._portdb_keys))) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6552, in aux_get try: del self.auxdb[mylocation][mycpv] File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/template.py", line 82, in __delitem__ self._delitem(cpv) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 98, in _delitem raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e) cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption: sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.10-r5 is corrupt:[Errno 13] Permission denied: var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.10-r5' The files that had their permissions changed were: changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-lpd-20070329' to portage:portage changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-lpd-20070928' to portage:portage changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-cups-20070329' to portage:portage changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-cups-20070928' to portage:portage snip> changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-screen-20070329' to portage:portage changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-screen-20070928' to portage:portage chown: cannot access var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-bind-20050408': Permission denied changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-bind-20050626' to portage:portage chown: cannot access var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-bind-20061114': Permission denied changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-bind-20070329' to portage:portage Maybe the '/usr/bin/emerge' executable is corrupted. Can I just scp over a copy from another similar arch machine? Any other ideas? James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list