localhost ~ # emerge --sync
>>> Starting rsync with rsync://64.127.121.98/gentoo-portage...
>>> Checking server timestamp ...
Welcome to owl.gentoo.org

Server Address : 64.127.121.98
Contact Name   : mirror-admin@gentoo.org
Hardware       : 4 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz, 1024MB RAM


Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more
than once a day.  Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation
may be added to a temporary ban list.


MOTD brought to you by motd-o-matic, version 0.3

receiving file list ... done
timestamp.chk

Number of files: 1
Number of files transferred: 1
Total file size: 32 bytes
Total transferred file size: 32 bytes
Literal data: 32 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 32
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 203
Total bytes received: 543

sent 203 bytes  received 543 bytes  213.14 bytes/sec
total size is 32  speedup is 0.04
Welcome to owl.gentoo.org

Server Address : 64.127.121.98
Contact Name   : mirror-admin@gentoo.org
Hardware       : 4 x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz, 1024MB RAM


Please note: common gentoo-netiquette says you should not sync more
than once a day.  Users who abuse the rsync.gentoo.org rotation
may be added to a temporary ban list.


MOTD brought to you by motd-o-matic, version 0.3

receiving file list ... done
./

--Sniped list of packages--

Number of files: 147368
Number of files transferred: 187
Total file size: 157634315 bytes
Total transferred file size: 854557 bytes
Literal data: 854557 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 3407512
File list generation time: 13.548 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 6511
Total bytes received: 4273639

sent 6511 bytes  received 4273639 bytes  94069.23 bytes/sec
total size is 157634315  speedup is 36.83

>>> Updating Portage cache:      Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in ?
    emerge_main()
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4006, in emerge_main
    action_sync(settings, trees, mtimedb, myopts, myaction)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2924, in action_sync
    action_metadata(settings, portdb, myopts)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3019, in action_metadata
    eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py", line 47, in mirror_cache
    if trg and not write_it:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/UserDict.py", line 170, in __len__
    return len(self.keys())
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 54, in keys
    return list(self.__iter__())
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 48, in __iter__
    for k in self.orig.iterkeys():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/UserDict.py", line 103, in iterkeys
    return self.__iter__()
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 83, in __iter__
    return iter(self.keys())
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/mappings.py", line 87, in keys
    self.d.update(self.pull())
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 29, in callit
    return args[0](*args[1:]+args2)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py", line 47, in _pull
    raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e)
cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption: app-accessibility/SphinxTrain-0.9.1-r1 is corrupt: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required

localhost ~ #