How can I recover my system?

abuelo · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 8

I finally did a manual install and got a semi-working system. I have to mount some of my partitions manually, and the network interface. But now I have done something that has messed up emerge. When I try any emerge command, I get the following:

Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2006
(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.*'
........
pTraceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in ?
emerge_main()
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3770, in emerge_main
portage.global_updates(settings, trees, mtimedb["updates"])
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6656, in global_updates
myupd)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_update.py", line 198, in update_config_files
write_atomic(updating_file, "".join(file_contents[x]))
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 728, in write_atomic
f.close()
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 696, in close
os.rename(self.name, self._real_name)
OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy

Can I get back to finish the installation of all the packages needed to complete the install?

rsa4046 · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject:

Try to resync (emerge --sync), if that fails see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147010
The tail of those posts indicates that the patch at https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=96616&action=view
seems to work. Download the patch, save it to /tmp/update_config.patch, and then try

abuelo · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 8

This seemed to fix the problem, I am able to do a emerge --sync now. Thanks

rsa4046 · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:09 pm Post subject:

bMd · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

nixnut · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo.
Not about getting gentoo installed, so moved here.
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tomk · Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:43 am Post subject:

Moved from Other Things Gentoo to Duplicate Threads, please see this topic: portage fails - errno 16 Device or resource busy.
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