On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot emerge world any more because portage keeps barfing on some random
> java ebuild.
> Java's not even in the list of things to emerge, but here's what I see:
>
> Total: 14 packages (14 upgrades), Size of downloads: 99,898 kB
>
> Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] yes
> >>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...
>
> !!! Digest verification failed:
> !!! /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk/sun-jdk-1.5.0.15-r1.ebuild
> !!! Reason: Failed on RMD160 verification
>  !!! Got: 751637964edd458f00c9c72de8f5375eabaf9004
> !!! Expected: c7268656bf1adccafde5dd9c1104c5a12905b1dc
> treat init.d #
>
>
> I've tried deleting the offending file and re-syncing, but the same error
> occurs.
>
> Help???
>
> ++ kevin
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>

For now mask java above whatever revision is currently installed and
move on. When your emerge is complete remember to remove the mask.
When they fix the file/digest/whatever is causing the problem it will
start working again.