On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:05:40PM -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
>  * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed
>  * with exit value -1.
>  *
>  * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named
>  * 'arora-0.11.0.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/www-
>  * client/arora-0.11.0' directory. If necessary, manually remove the
>  * environment.bz2 file and/or the ebuild file located in that directory.
>  *
>  * Removal of the environment.bz2 file is preferred since it may allow the
>  * removal phases to execute successfully. The ebuild will be sourced and
>  * the eclasses from the current portage tree will be used when necessary.
>  * Removal of the ebuild file will cause the pkg_prerm() and pkg_postrm()
>  * removal phases to be skipped entirely.
> 
>  * Messages for package www-client/arora-0.11.0:
> 
>  * The 'prerm' phase of the 'www-client/arora-0.11.0' package has failed
>  * with exit value -1.
>  *
>  * The problem occurred while executing the ebuild file named
>  * 'arora-0.11.0.ebuild' located in the '/var/db/pkg/www-
>  * client/arora-0.11.0' directory. If necessary, manually remove the
>  * environment.bz2 file and/or the ebuild file located in that directory.
>  *
>  * Removal of the environment.bz2 file is preferred since it may allow the
>  * removal phases to execute successfully. The ebuild will be sourced and
>  * the eclasses from the current portage tree will be used when necessary.
>  * Removal of the ebuild file will cause the pkg_prerm() and pkg_postrm()
>  * removal phases to be skipped entirely.
> 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 1492, in emerge_main
>     myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 2305, in 
> action_uninstall
>     valid_atoms, ldpath_mtimes, ordered=ordered)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/unmerge.py", line 507, in unmerge
>     scheduler=scheduler)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4509, in unmerge
>     ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 2160, in unmerge
>     vartree=self.vartree)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py", line
> 793, in doebuild
>     fd_pipes=fd_pipes, returnpid=returnpid)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py", line
> 1261, in spawn
>     buf.fromfile(f, buffsize)
> IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

Strange, an IO error? 
Which other packages do you have this problem with?


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         et vice versa   ~~~  I. Newton

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