Can't emerge portage: ERROR

[Tpoxa]

Hi all,
while attempting to emerge -NuD world the systems tryies to

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Emerging (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.1.3.9 to /

waits for a minute and returns
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5676, in ?
retval = emerge_main()
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5669, in emerge_main
myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5136, in action_build
retval = mergetask.merge(pkglist, favorites, mtimedb)
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3273, in merge
prev_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3747, in doebuild
if need_distfiles and not fetch(
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2508, in fetch
waiting_msg=waiting_msg)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_locks.py", line 78, in lockfile
fcntl.lockf(myfd,fcntl.LOCK_EX|fcntl.LOCK_NB)
IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error
Follow advises from this Forum, I gave

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emerge --sync

emptied

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rm -rf /var/tmp/portage

but all unsuccessfully.
Throughout the Forum there isn't any related post.
Any idea?

[yuwy]

my guess is that portage was calculating all the stuffu need to update and dependancies and came across a
loop of some kind and then decided to break out of the process. My suggestion is to read the rev-dep sticky
first on emerging portage, then issue the

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emerge -av portage

command and from there run the rev-dep scripts, then
issue the command u initially attempted to do.

[Tpoxa]

Issued

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revdep-rebuild

after

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emerge -av portage

but nothing helped, the problem remains. Any suggestions?

[bunder]

IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

did you run out of space on /var perhaps?

[dilbot]

I have the same type of problem after doing a revdep-rebuild.


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5481, in ?
retval = emerge_main()
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5476, in emerge_main
myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4953, in action_build
ldpath_mtimes, autoclean=1)
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3566, in unmerge
vartree=vartree, ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3948, in unmerge
ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6984, in unmerge
mydbapi=self.vartree.dbapi, vartree=self.vartree)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3561, in doebuild
mysettings, debug=debug, free=1, logfile=logfile)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2237, in spawn
mypids.extend(spawn_func(mystring, env=env, **keywords))
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 52, in spawn_bash
return spawn(args, opt_name=opt_name, **keywords)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 160, in spawn
raise CommandNotFound(mycommand[0])
portage_exception.CommandNotFound: /bin/bash


For some reason, emerge is killing /bin/bash and /bin/egrep and probably some other fundamental binaries.
No solution yet.