Another eopkg System Error

SirTediousOfFoo

Hi all.

I saw some similar threads but mostly for fresh installs or the solutions didn't work for me so here's another one..

I updated some packages through Discover, it randomly got stuck half-way, then threw some stack trace I didn't think to save and showed 0 packages to update. Well okay everything still worked so whatever.
Yesterday I realize some packages are missing, the most obvious one being Steam.

Try running eopkg directly and it gives

Program terminated.
Unable to read file (/var/lib/eopkg/package/....

Found here a similar issue, did

sudo eopkg clean
sudo eopkg dc
sudo eopkg rmo

Now, clean and dc went normal. Doing rmo brings me to the next error in the line which is

System error. Program terminated.
not enough values to unpack (expected 3, got 1)

I tried getting the static binary from another support thread, the latest i found was eopkg4-bin-4.0.0-19-1 same result. Multiple restarts and all that yield no improvement. So I'm stuck on this now and not sure how to proceed. Not all commands to this. I can list-components normally for example but list-available or list-installed fail with the same error.

Traceback for any of the failing commands when running with the debug flag has the same basic output here.

Traceback:
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/eopkg.py3", line 83, in <module>
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/eopkg.py3", line 79, in main
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/pisi/cli/pisicli.py", line 132, in run_command
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/pisi/cli/rebuilddb.py", line 47, in run
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/pisi/api.py", line 78, in wrapper
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/pisi/api.py", line 937, in rebuild_db
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/pisi/db/filesdb.py", line 33, in init
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/pisi/db/filesdb.py", line 300, in __check_filesdb
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/pisi/db/filesdb.py", line 325, in __rebuild
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/pisi/db/installdb.py", line 120, in list_installed
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/pisi/db/lazydb.py", line 125, in __getattr__
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/pisi/db/lazydb.py", line 120, in __init
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/pisi/db/installdb.py", line 67, in init
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/pisi/db/installdb.py", line 75, in __generate_installed_pkgs
  File "/tmp/onefile_18713_1770284817_316078/pisi/db/installdb.py", line 72, in split_name

System is Solus 4.8, eopkg version is 4.3.4, kernel is 6.17.8-324.current, running on Budgie. CPU AMD Ryzen 7, GPU Radeon RX6900.

alfisya

Try sudo eopkg rdb and sudo eopkg check

SirTediousOfFoo

alfisya They don't do anything 😔

It's the same error on any command that tries to make a change somewhere I guess?

Stack trace of latest rdb

sudo eopkg rdb -d
Rebuild eopkg databases? (yes/no)y
Disabling keyboard interrupts for file operations.
DEBUG: FilesDB /var/lib/eopkg/info/files.db check result:
DEBUG: > file_exists = True
DEBUG: > can_write = True
DEBUG: > db_type = dbm.gnu
DEBUG: > flag = w
DEBUG: > valid_shelve = True
DEBUG: > version = 4
DEBUG: => force_rebuild = True
DEBUG: => needs_rebuild = False
DEBUG: => please_rebuild_manually = None
Rebuilding the FilesDB...
Adding packages to FilesDB /var/lib/eopkg/info/files.db:
System error. Program terminated.
System error. Program terminated.
<class 'ValueError'>: not enough values to unpack (expected 3, got 1)
<class 'ValueError'>: not enough values to unpack (expected 3, got 1)
Please use 'eopkg help' for general help.

Traceback:
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/eopkg.py3", line 83, in <module>
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/eopkg.py3", line 79, in main
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/pisi/cli/pisicli.py", line 132, in run_command
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/pisi/cli/rebuilddb.py", line 47, in run
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/pisi/api.py", line 78, in wrapper
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/pisi/api.py", line 937, in rebuild_db
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/pisi/db/filesdb.py", line 33, in init
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/pisi/db/filesdb.py", line 300, in __check_filesdb
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/pisi/db/filesdb.py", line 325, in __rebuild
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/pisi/db/installdb.py", line 120, in list_installed
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/pisi/db/lazydb.py", line 125, in __getattr__
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/pisi/db/lazydb.py", line 120, in __init
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/pisi/db/installdb.py", line 67, in init
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/pisi/db/installdb.py", line 75, in __generate_installed_pkgs
  File "/tmp/onefile_25517_1770287399_191868/pisi/db/installdb.py", line 72, in split_name

SirTediousOfFoo

Update: I figured out what went wrong in the end.

Some of the older answers suggest manually adding missing files to fix the error

Unable to read file (/var/lib/eopkg/package/....

However doing so looks like it breaks the local database scripting in pisi. Ended up removing the manually added packages, running the suggested block of eopkg commands and now everything updates normally.

sudo eopkg clean
sudo eopkg dc
sudo eopkg rmo

brent

SirTediousOfFoo
those are all good commands. rdb should have been your friend. I'm sure there's an ideal sequence for these commands but after all these years I've not looked into it. 🙂
--congrats for solving