From: "mike" <vapier@netzero.com>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is my portage broken?
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 08:44:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <015501c25f11$31bc4520$55f1d782@vapier> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020918074332.GA5471@lion.e-technik.uni-ulm.de
you could `rm -rf /usr/portage/*` and not worry
about messing up your system. it'll just take a lot
longer to complete `emerge rsync`.
that might be a good idea if you're running an old
version of portage and/or have old ebuilds.
`emerge rsync ; emerge portage -u ; emerge world -up`
-mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Serge Eric Thiam" <serge-eric.thiam@gmx.net>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 03:43
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is my portage broken?
> * Thomas Rasch [Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 08:20:22PM +0200]
> > Hello!
> >
> > I didn't get an answer to this question in the gentoo-user mailinglist,
> > so it seems to be more tricky than I thought...
> >
> > To make it short: I made an emerge rsync, and something didn't
> > survive...
> >
> > emerge -up world gives:
> >
> > Calculating world dependencies
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1369, in ?
> > if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
> > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 805, in xcreate
> > elif portage.db[portage.root]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x):
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2522, in
> > match
> > mydep=dep_expand(origdep,self)
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2037, in
> > dep_expand
> > return prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb)+postfix
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1970, in
> > cpv_expand
> > if (not mydb.cp_list(mykey)) and virts and virts.has_key(mykey):
> > File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2481, in
> > cp_list
> > mystat=os.stat(self.root+"var/db/pkg/"+mysplit[0])[ST_MTIME]
> > TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL
> > bytes), not str
> > [...]
> >
> > Thomas
> > [...]
>
> Hello,
>
> There might be a broken ebuild in your portage tree. Try to clean up
> your portage tree, (maby deleting all the ebuilds) before doing an
> emerge rsync and try again. It would be a good idea to backup first, you
> never know what might happen.... don't want to cause harm to your
> system.
>
> Good luck,
> --
> Serge
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-18 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-17 18:20 [gentoo-dev] Is my portage broken? Thomas Rasch
2002-09-18 7:43 ` Serge Eric Thiam
2002-09-18 12:44 ` mike [this message]
2002-09-18 16:14 ` Thomas Rasch
2002-09-18 17:51 ` mike
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