[SOLVED] [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/db/pk...

[glamoroushacker]

Hi,

Error:
[code]OSERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/db/pkg/sys-apps/'

I upgraded portage to 2.1.7.2 today on two machines, on one, everything is fine - I can emerge packages and see which packages are installed. On the other, portage cannot figure out what is installed and fails to install new ones (even itself) with this message:
[code]OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '//var/db/pkg/sys-apps'[/code]

I looked at emerge --info and noticed it also cannot figure out what version of glibc I am using (should be 2.10.1)
[code]Portage 2.1.7.2 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.2, unavailable, 2.6.31-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:00:01 +0000
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en_US en"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="64bit X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amarok amarok2 amd64 aspell bittorrent captury cdda cdio clucene corefonts crypt css curl daemon dbus dga dirac divx dri dts dvd dvdr eigen embedded encode ffmpeg flac geoip gif git glib gnokii gnutls gstreamer hal handbook inotify ipod jpeg kdcraw kde kde4 kdepim kipi kontact lame live lm_sensors mad matroska mmx mng modplug mp2 mp3 mp3tunes mp4 mpeg mtp multilib musepack musicbrainz nfsv3 nfsv4 normalize nptl nptlonly nvidia ocamlopt ogg opengl oscar pam pcre phonon php plasma png pstoedit qalculate qt-dbus qt-webkit qt3support qt4 qtdesigner qtscript quicktime raptor redland rss rtsp schroedinger semantic-desktop shine solver spell sqlite sse sse2 sse3 ssl stream syncml templates theora threads threadsafe thumbnail truetype twolame utils vcd vim vim-syntax vlc vorbis webdav-neon wma wma-fixed wmf wmp wv2 x264 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xorg xrender xv xvid yahoo" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY[/code]

Running emerge --sync didn't help any. I also use eix to search for packages, etc. faster. Neither eix nor eix-update report any irregularities except eix -I doesn't return anything (I can still search for packages, it just doesn't think anything is installed). How do I get portage to find its brains (so to speak)? Thanks!
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[zietbukuel]

I have the same problem which is described here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-800336.html

[Mike Hunt]

It could be filesystem errors, run shutdown -Fr now

[zietbukuel]

[Mike Hunt]

and what happens if you run emerge --regen

?

[Genone]

Obvious question: does the directory in question exist, and is it readable?

[glamoroushacker]

doesn't help....

So my /usr/portage directory is mapped over sshfs to my server and it can run installs and see what is installed just fine. I also have a VM that uses the /usr/portage repository on the server to run it's updates. It runs just fine as well (can see what is installed and what isn't etc.).

I think it has corrupt configuration files or something in /var/lib/portage or somewhere else. I looked at the world file in /var/lib/portage and it appears to be just fine. I don't know what the config file does, but it doesn't look weird to me.

I've looked through the documentation pretty much the config files are in /etc/portage and /var/lib/portage. Nothing in either of those directories look messed up. Here is the config file in /var/lin/portage.... not quite sure what it is suppose to look like.

[glamoroushacker]

[Mike Hunt]

Another thing I would try is removing the /var/cache/edb folder, then run emerge -uDNpv world to regenerate it.

[m.s.w]

I had the same problem.
For me It was portage bug.
updating portage to portage-2.2_rc48 solved the problem
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[glamoroushacker]

Okay....I'm on the road to recovery.....

I've upgraded to portage 2.2_rc48 and it can install packages (I upgraded another machine to 2.2_rc48, then packaged it with quickpkg --include-config=y portage", copied to my trouble machine and ran "tar -xvjpf portage-2.2_rc48.tbz2" in the root (/) directory). It still hasn't figured out what is installed and what is not. I have an intact /var/lib/portage/world file and I'm installing the some packages with "emerge --nodeps eselect file eselect-python glibc python" because of circular dependencies. I will run an "emerge --system" and hopefully by then it will have figured out what else is installed. If not, I'll be re-emerging my entire system (I have a world file, so it won't be hard).

I'll let y'all know how this works...
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[glamoroushacker]

So that worked......

I installed those random packages resolving the circular dependencies and now I'm running "emerge -avNuD world". It knows what packages I want installed from the /var/lib/portage/world file, but it doesn't think anything is installed.

Does the /var/lib/portage/config file control what is installed?

Thanks everyone for your help!
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[Genone]

[zietbukuel]

I think it's a portage bug, I've upgraded to portage-2.2_rc48 and now I can install those packages

[glamoroushacker]

hahahahaha

That explains why my system has NO idea what is installed!! The /var/db/pkg/sys-apps directory existed. But when it started complaining, I blew away EVERYTHING in the /var/db/pkg/ directory. It is all on it's way back, it'll just take some time.

What is the /var/lib/portage/config file for?
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[Genone]

Mostly for keeping track of checksums of CONFIG_PROTECTed files.