On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 02:39:24AM -0500, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote:
> Just upgraded portage (2.0.47-r2) and now I get
> 
> aux_get(): (2) couldn't open cache entry for dev-libs/gtk-sharp-0.6
>                Check for syntax error or corruption in the ebuild.
> emerge: search: aux_get() failed, skipping

Yannick Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted this solution on
gentoo-dev:

> My finding on this (it did occurred to me in < 2.0.47-r2 portage as
> well) is that the /var/cache/edb/dep/<ebuild-related file> is of size
> 0 or less than what portage expect.
> 
> The solution I got from the IRC was
> 
> mv /var/cache/edb/dep <somewhere else>
> emerge regen
> rm -rf <somewhere else>
> 
> I hope I'm not incorrectely giving the dir name has the consequence
> could be desastrous so try at your own risk ;-)

This fixed it for me....  Hope it helps,
Jeff

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