emerge rsync fails...

Salze · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Germany

...with:

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>>> Updating Portage cache... /!!! Couldn't empty HOME: /var/tmp/portage/homedir
!!! [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory
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"ls /var/tmp/portage/ -lh" gives:

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total 512
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 35 2003-03-26 10:38 homedir
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"df" gives:

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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 971896 383584 588312 40% /
tmpfs 2048 20 2028 1% /mnt/.init.d
/dev/share/usr_lv 2097084 865120 1231964 42% /usr
/dev/share/share 50702832 49726728 976104 99% /share
/dev/store/store 60020948 53599780 6421168 90% /store
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"top" gives:

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10:43:34 up 6 days, 15:46, 1 user, load average: 0,01, 0,57, 0,79
86 processes: 85 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 1,5% user, 2,6% system, 0,9% nice, 0,0% iowait, 94,8% idle
Mem: 191368k av, 183052k used, 8316k free, 0k shrd, 11992k buff
144k active, 161608k inactive
Swap: 0k av, 0k used, 0k free 10824k cached
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Any ideas?

bye
Salze

ebrostig · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2003 8:05 pm Post subject:

Where does the /var/tmp/portage/homedir come from?
As far as I know, it is not created by emerge.
Did you create it yourself?
If so, just remove it (as root)

Salze · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Germany

Hi Erik!

Salze · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Germany

...but don't now why.