[gentoo-dev] Portage killed. Any help?

[gentoo-dev] Portage killed. Any help?

[Christian Hergl]

Hello list,

some time ago I tried to finish my gentoo system to get it work ready. 
Amoung other packages, I had a baselayout-1.6.1 AND baselayout-1.6.2 
installted, together with portage-1.6.11.
Ok, now I thought I shall be brave and update to baselayout-1.6.5 to get 
rid of any mess in my startup-scripts (have had a few...).
I also updated to portage-1.7.1, all seemed to work fine. Until to the 
next reboot.
Now all I get when typing 'emerge' is:

!!! Invalid token (not "=") B
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 301, in ?
   if not portage.settings.has_key ("MAINTAINTER"):
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 496, in has_key
   if x.has_key(mykey):
AttributeError: 'None' object has no attribute 'has_key'

Uhm..... help? Please? Well, I have a (sort of, it seems) running system 
now, but without portage, I can't update anymore anything and would be 
stuck!
The emerge baselayout did seem to work well, and I worked to the .000x 
startup files in /etc. It seemse though that something got messed up, 
and I simply don't know where.
Also, if I ever get portage working again, would it be safe to unmerge 
the old baselayouts? I'm not very trusting anymore which of which 
packages are still needed and which not...

Thanks all in advance,

your confused

Christian

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage killed. Any help?

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:39:44PM +0100, Christian Hergl wrote:

> File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 301, in ?
>    if not portage.settings.has_key ("MAINTAINTER"):

I really don't like that error just above there. What is a MAINTAINTER
anyway ? The primary 'tainter' of Gentoo ? Dan Armak, have you been checking
in Win32 stuff again ??? ;p

A bit more seriously, I will look into this once I have my laptop back up
and running, unless drobbins beats me to it. 

Karl T

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage killed. Any help?

[Christian Hergl]

Oh,

erh, sorry, that should be acctually "MAINTAINER". Had to write the 
whole message down and send it in a email from Windows. My bad =)

Though thanks for already looking,

Christian

Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:39:44PM +0100, Christian Hergl wrote:
> 
> 
>>File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 301, in ?
>>   if not portage.settings.has_key ("MAINTAINTER"):
>>
> 
> I really don't like that error just above there. What is a MAINTAINTER
> anyway ? The primary 'tainter' of Gentoo ? Dan Armak, have you been checking
> in Win32 stuff again ??? ;p
> 
> A bit more seriously, I will look into this once I have my laptop back up
> and running, unless drobbins beats me to it. 
> 
> Karl T
> 
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