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From: Burton Samograd <kruhft@shaw.ca>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Serious portage problem...
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I tried that but it sill seems to come up with the same error :-/

Here's a recap:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1314, in ?
    mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist())
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 590, in merge
    retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,edebug)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1007, in
  doebuild
    return
  merge(settings["CATEGORY"],settings["PF"],settings["D"],settings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,myebuild=settings["EBUILD"])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1262, in
  merge
    mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3000, in
  merge
    self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2714, in
  treewalk
    packagecounter=long(globalcounterfile.readline())
ValueError: invalid literal for long(): 

Looks like something about a "globalcounterfile" object not being
present..i'm not much of a python wizard so i'm not really sure.  Any
other suggestions?


On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:16:06PM +0200, Christophe Vanfleteren wrote:
> On Monday 24 June 2002 21:47, Burton Samograd wrote:
> > I seem to be having some wierd problems with portage.  Here is an
> > example when I try to re-emerge portage:
> >
> <--lots of errors -->
> 
> Check /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE, you can find 
> instructions on how to restore portage.
> 
> Christophe Vanfleteren
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