Hello. I cannot emerge --sync my system anymore, as this brings out the following error :
Updating Portage cache: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5530, in ? retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5489, in emerge_main action_metadata(settings, portdb, myopts) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4300, in action_metadata eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py", line 22, in mirror_cache dead_nodes = dict.fromkeys(trg_cache.keys()) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/template.py", line 95, in keys return tuple(self.iterkeys()) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 122, in iterkeys st = os.lstat(p) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/vmpsd-1.3-r\x12'
So, it looks like the problem is with the content of the directory /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/ localhost net-misc # cd /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/ localhost net-misc # ls ./ (TAB PRESSED) asterisk-chan_capi-0.4.^P_pre1 netprofiles)ims-0.1.0134 stuNnel-4.15 htbinit^I0.8.5 netstat)nat-1.4.7 suite3230-3.3.2_p1 icaclient-9^N0-r1 networkianager-0.6.4_pre20061028 tightvnc-1.^R.9-r4 iputils)20060512 sipsak-0.9.^Q vmpsd-1.3-r^R linUx-identd-1.3-r1 stoje-2.2e vnc-4.1^N2-r1 lksctp-Pools-1.0.4 stone-2^N2c memcached-1^N1.13-r1 streamtuner-0.9^Y.99 This shows that the offending file somehow exists (?); but these files cannot be accessed, as the ls command shows : localhost net-misc # ls ls: cannot access vmpsd-1.3-r: No such file or directory ls: cannot access streamtuner-0.9.99: No such file or directory ls: cannot access vnc-4.12-⎼1: N⎺ ⎽┤␌ °␋┌␊ ⎺⎼ ␍␋⎼␊␌├⎺⎼≤ ┌⎽: ␌▒┼┼⎺├ ▒␌␌␊⎽⎽ ┼␊├⎻⎼⎺°␋┌␊⎽)␋└⎽-0.1.0134: N⎺ ⎽┤␌ °␋┌␊ ⎺⎼ ␍␋⎼␊␌├⎺⎼≤ ┌⎽: ␌▒┼┼⎺├ ▒␌␌␊⎽⎽ ┼␊├⎽├▒├)┼▒├-1.4.7: N⎺ ⎽┤␌ °␋┌␊ ⎺⎼ ␍␋⎼␊␌├⎺⎼≤ <+ more garbage > Is my filesystem damaged ? rm -rf /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc has no effect on these problematic files ; I have executed fsck.ext2 on the filesystem, and this reported no error. Many thanks for your helpful suggestions.
