emerge failing since power outage [solved]

hebble · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 24

Yesterday I performed an emerge -DNuv world (which, among other packages, was to build KDE 4.4) and I had a power outage.

After restarting the computer, I attempted to re-emerge using the same command and it returned the following error message...

# emerge -pDNuv world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 42, in <module>
retval = emerge_main()
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1410, in emerge_main
myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 375, in action_build
favorites=favorites)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 4637, in display
out.write("%s\n" % (myprint,))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 141-143: ordinal not in range(128)
#

Since then, I have re-emerged portage (2.1.8.3), which built and installed correctly except for this message right at the end...

>>> Auto-cleaning packages...
portage: COUNTER for dev-libs/libassuan-2.0.0 was corrupted; resetting to value of 0
portage: COUNTER for dev-libs/libassuan-2.0.0 was corrupted; resetting to value of 0

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.

I have also deleted /usr/portage except for the distfiles directory - no change
and have run e2fsck over the file system from a gentoo min install disk.

Any thoughts of how to fix this.

Many thank,
CharlesS

emerge --info below....

# emerge --info
Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8-i686-Pentium-R-_Dual-Core_CPU_E6300_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:15:03 +0000
app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10
dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r4, 2.6.4-r1
dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -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://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo http://mirror.isp.net.au/ftp/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp http://136.186.1.76/gentoo"
LANG="en_GB"
LC_ALL="en_GB"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
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.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac accessibility acl alsa arts avi berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus doc dri dts dvd dvdread embedded encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gphoto2 gpm gtk hal iconv icu ipv6 jadetex java joystick jpeg jpeg2k kde live matroska mmx mmxext modules mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection sdl semantic-desktop session spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb v4l vorbis x86 xanim xorg xv xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul 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 cgi cgid 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" FOO2ZJS_DEVICES="sa300" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="xerox_mfp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
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d2_racing · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:09 am Post subject:

Hi, I had that too last week.

I had to run this :

hebble · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 24

Thanks for the prompt response.

Just tried emerge -aev world. Results not as hoped...

Not sure if I need to do something else to get this working, or if the prob is different.
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champ · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:21 am Post subject:

Try resyncing and then run emerge -eav world
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d2_racing · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:36 am Post subject:

Maybe try this :

hebble · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 24

Ran emerge --sync and the update occured without error.

Tried emerge -eav - Same results as before.
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hebble · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 24

Also retried d2_racing's suggestion of re-emerging portage and trying again.

Same result, although the rebuild of portage did not occur totally cleanly....

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3

Does anyone know where libassuan fit into things?
Also tried to re-emerge it and failed.

few · Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 448

File a bug. libassuan turns up only because some of it's files in the vdb were corrupted.

lxg · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:22 am Post subject:

few · Guru Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 448

Genone · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:00 am Post subject:

d2_racing · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:40 pm Post subject:

When I had that kind of problem, I had to reinstall from scratch.

hebble · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 24

I think I've worked out where libassuan comes into the problem.

Reading from /var/log/emerge.log, libassuan was being emerged at the time of the power outage

... never completed.

Suspect it may have been part way through the install.
I'll see if I can determine if this was the case.

Just need to work out how I can clean up libassuan and rebuild.
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drescherjm · Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:09 pm Post subject:

I had this years ago. I think you need to find the file with a

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 15521

What filesystem holds /var/db/pkg? This kind of corruption generally should not happen on journaled filesystems.

drescherjm · Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:09 am Post subject:

Thanks. Now I found it.. There should be a file:

/var/db/pkg/dev-libs/libassuan-2.0.0/COUNTER

The contents of this file should be a number which represents the incremental number of the build.

On my system the contents are:

hebble · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 24

Looks like I may have fixed it.

I did an

hebble · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 24

Rebuild almost finished.

I'll call it solved - Thanks all.
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