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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error - BadPickleGet
From:       "Bruce J.A. Nourish" <kode187 () kode187 ! net>
Date:       2003-01-28 18:44:00
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On Tuesday 28 January 2003 11:14 am, Boris Boege wrote:
> bash-2.05b# emerge rsync
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2, in ?
>     import
> os,sys,portage,xpak,string,re,commands,time,threading,shutil File
> "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4147, in ?
> mtimedb=cPickle.load(open(mtimedbfile))
> cPickle.BadPickleGet: 22ÿ
>
> The problem stil exists after deleting the overlay-variable.
> Is there anybody who knows what went wrong?

Pickling is the process of dumping an instance of a Python object to 
disk, so it can be reloaded. It looks to me like a pickled object on 
disk got hosed. Try deleting /var/cache/edb/mtimedb.

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Bruce J.A. Nourish <kode187@kode187.net>


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