[gentoo-dev] emerge crash problem

["David Gümbel" <david.guembel@gmx.de>]

Hello everybody,




- I am having a problem with emerge/portage as follows: When trying to issue 
emerge --pretend --update $X I get crashes from emerge. This does not occur 
for all $X, e.g. $X==system works, but "world" or "kde" doesn't:

anna portage # emerge --pretend --update system

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating system dependencies ...done!
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/groff-1.17.2-r2 to /
[ebuild    U ] sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r6 to /
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/cronbase-0.2.1 to /
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/man-1.5k to /
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/man-pages-1.52 to /
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/modutils-2.4.19 to /
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3 to /
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/textutils-2.0.19-r2 to /
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.11u to /

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anna portage # emerge --pretend --update world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating world dependencies /Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1325, in ?
    if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 771, in xcreate
    if not self.create(myk):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 696, in create
    self.create(myk,parent)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 696, in create
    self.create(myk,parent)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 643, in create
    mycheck=portage.dep_check(mydep[myroot],mydbapi)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2122, in dep_check
    mydict[x]=1
TypeError: list objects are unhashable

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anna portage # emerge --pretend --update kde

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating dependencies \Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1352, in ?
    if not mydepgraph.create([mytype,portage.root,mykey],None,"--onlydeps" 
not in myopts):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 696, in create
    self.create(myk,parent)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 696, in create
    self.create(myk,parent)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 696, in create
    self.create(myk,parent)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 643, in create
    mycheck=portage.dep_check(mydep[myroot],mydbapi)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2122, in dep_check
    mydict[x]=1
TypeError: list objects are unhashable

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That behaviour is true for portage versions 2.0.{28,29,30_alpha2}. I think 
the verion of portage installed before .28 (which caused that problems for 
the first time) was .23, as seen here:

anna portage # epm -q portage
portage-1.9.10
portage-2.0.13
portage-2.0.23
portage-2.0.28
portage-2.0.29
portage-2.0.30_alpha2

Unfortunately the ebuild file for that version has gone with the last emerge 
rsync, I guess. Anyway, it's no longer there.

I would be very happy about any advice, as this is obvously a bad thing to 
have :)



Greetings 




David
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