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From: "mike" <vapier@netzero.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is my portage broken?
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:51:55 -0400
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do you irc ?  if so, find me on irc.openprojects.net as SpanKY
in #gentoo and pmsg me.  i have prebuilt 386 binarys of portage
that you can utilize without having to re-install everything.
if not, send me a private e-mail and ill get back to you on how
to utilize the package
-mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Rasch" <thomas@macnews.de>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 12:14
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Is my portage broken?


> mike schreibt:
> 
> > 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`
> 
> emerge -u portage now gives:
> 
> 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 3959, in ?
>     do_vartree()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3950, in
> do_vartree
>     if not virts_p.has_key(vkeysplit[1]):
> IndexError: list index out of range
> 
> 
> I think my system got completly messed up by a recent filesystem crash,
> and either portage or python got corrupted... I guess I have to
> reinstall it from scratch :-((
> 
> Thomas
> 
> Famous last words:
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