I was runnning a "emerge --sync" and portage died at the end:

deleting app-accessibility/gnome-mag/files/digest-gnome-mag-0.11.11
deleting app-accessibility/gnome-mag/files/digest-gnome-mag-0.10.4

Number of files: 113281
Number of files transferred: 2980
Total file size: 88664800 bytes
Total transferred file size: 5950431 bytes
Literal data: 5950431 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 2551394
Total bytes written: 59781
Total bytes read: 8636699

wrote 59781 bytes  read 8636699 bytes  80897.49 bytes/sec
total size is 88664800  speedup is 10.20

>>> Updating Portage cache:  100%



Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2005
(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.*'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2630, in ?
    reload(portage)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7241, in ?
    do_upgrade(mykey)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7132, in do_upgrade
    db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.move_ent(mysplit)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4555, in move_ent
    fixdbentries(origcp, newcp, pkgdir)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3837, in fixdbentries
    f = open(dbdir+"/"+myfile, "r")
IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory

And now everything falls over. Is there a known problem and a way to fix
this?

-- 
Alex Bennee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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