emerge: ValueError bad marshal data (invalid ref..) [Solved]

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eccerr0r · Post by **eccerr0r** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 7:52 am

Not sure how this happened but when I run 'emerge' on this box, I get this error. Seems like bytecode compiled code is corrupt?

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$ emerge
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.8/emerge", line 44, in <module>
    from _emerge.main import emerge_main
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_emerge/main.py", line 21, in <module>
    from portage.sync import _SUBMODULE_PATH_MAP
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/portage/sync/__init__.py", line 9, in <module>
    from portage.sync.controller import SyncManager
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/portage/sync/controller.py", line 21, in <module>
    from portage.package.ebuild.doebuild import _check_temp_dir
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py", line 54, in <module>
    from portage.dbapi.porttree import _parse_uri_map
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/portage/dbapi/__init__.py", line 25, in <module>
    from _emerge.Package import Package
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_emerge/Package.py", line 10, in <module>
    from portage.dep import Atom, check_required_use, use_reduce, \
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 671, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 779, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 911, in get_code
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 580, in _compile_bytecode
ValueError: bad marshal data (invalid reference)

Looks like I have to dump a portage over this install to fix this?

Post by **fedeliallalinea** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 10:14 am

Try to download portage unpack it and run emerge with ./portage-3.0.13/bin/emerge -1 portage.

eccerr0r · Post by **eccerr0r** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 5:39 pm

Think the diagnosis is proper? (though thanks for the "fix"!)

Post by **fedeliallalinea** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 7:10 pm

I'm not a python expert but usually this error mean that imported compiled library is corrupted

eccerr0r · Post by **eccerr0r** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 8:06 pm

It was on that bad hard drive that ran out of spare sectors so quite possibly it was corruption, though I did not see it giving read errors while reading portage. Coupled with ECC bits on the disk, it was more likely written incorrectly...