emerge failing

[agentbob]

Hi..

Earlier this week i tried 'emerge bind-tools' and it failed and the whole system died (kernel panic or something.. couldn't even ping it). Upon reboot, it would get stuck at 'XFS recovering filesystem' for over 12 hours... tried rebooting 2-3 times. I left it off for the day and restarted it the next morning without problems. Anyhow since then I have been unable to re-merge or unmerge bind-tools (it fails), and also, I'm trying to emerge mutt right now and i've posted the results below. If anyone could provide input I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,

Dan

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gzipping man page: /var/tmp/portage/mutt-1.3.28/image//usr/share/man/man1/flea.1
gzipping man page: /var/tmp/portage/mutt-1.3.28/image//usr/share/man/man1/mutt.1
gzipping man page: /var/tmp/portage/mutt-1.3.28/image//usr/share/man/man1/mutt_dotlock.1
gzipping man page: /var/tmp/portage/mutt-1.3.28/image//usr/share/man/man1/muttbug.1
gzipping man page: /var/tmp/portage/mutt-1.3.28/image//usr/share/man/man5/mbox.5
gzipping man page: /var/tmp/portage/mutt-1.3.28/image//usr/share/man/man5/muttrc.5
strip:
/var/tmp/portage/mutt-1.3.28/image/usr/bin/mutt
/var/tmp/portage/mutt-1.3.28/image/usr/bin/pgpring
/var/tmp/portage/mutt-1.3.28/image/usr/bin/pgpewrap
>>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/mutt-1.3.28/image/

>>> Merging net-mail/mutt-1.3.28 to /
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1314, in ?
mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist())
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 590, in merge
retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,edebug)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1007, in doebuild
return merge(settings["CATEGORY"],settings["PF"],settings["D"],settings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,myebuild=settings["EBUILD"])
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1262, in merge
mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3000, in merge
self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2714, in treewalk
packagecounter=long(globalcounterfile.readline())
ValueError: invalid literal for long():

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[agentbob]

I just updated to portage 1.9.1 and its still not working. tried emerge --clean rsync; emerge rsync; and I still can't emerge any ports.

This is what happens when i try to do 'emerge -b mutt' (just generate the package):

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usr/bin/mutt
usr/bin/pgpring
usr/bin/pgpewrap
usr/bin/muttbug
usr/bin/flea
>>> Done.
>>> extracting info
>>> extracting mutt-1.3.28
>>> Merging net-mail/mutt-1.3.28 to /
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1314, in ?
mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist())
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 581, in merge
retval=portage.pkgmerge(mytbz2,myroot)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3098, in pkgmerge
mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3000, in merge
self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2714, in treewalk
packagecounter=long(globalcounterfile.readline())
ValueError: invalid literal for long():


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