Try this: rm /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp.chk emerge --sync
Frank Baumeister wrote: > Hello, > > whenever I run emerge it aborts with the following error message: > > localhost # emerge --sync > > Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2006 > (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) > .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' > s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' > p='update /etc/portage/package.*' > ........ > pTraceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in ? > emerge_main() > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3770, in emerge_main > portage.global_updates(settings, trees, mtimedb["updates"]) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6656, in global_updates > myupd) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_update.py", line 198, in > update_config_files > write_atomic(updating_file, "".join(file_contents[x])) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 728, in > write_atomic > f.close() > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 696, in close > os.rename(self.name, self._real_name) > OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy > localhost # > > I have no clue how to solve this problem, so any help would be greatly > appreciated! > > Kind regards > Frank > -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
