On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2017-10-08, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> This won't harm, although I would expect portage would complain and
>> not run the emerge if downloads were corrupted somehow.
>
> True, but I couldn't think of anything else to try. I'm building
> chromium now -- it may be time to give up on firefox. It's been
> bahaving badly on several of my systems for a while now (burning 100%
> cpu and using up huge amounts of RAM for minutes at a time while
> apparently doing nothing).
>
Usually what happens is it will be corrupted in RAM after being
verified on disk, and faulty results will be saved to disk from RAM. A
user on the forums recently had this issue compiling dev-lang/vala,
and I have had related issues.
As for what the error means: definitions are missing, which from an
end-user perspective is not really a fixable issue. I would rerun the
compilation with -j1 if you have not already done so. If other people
can build the package then portage may be munging the files in some
way, but these issues are hard to diagnose.
Cheers,
R0b0t1
