On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:50:20PM +0100, Grobian wrote:
> On 20-12-2005 16:09:47 -0800, m h wrote:
> > still chugging.  Upto 550Megs of memory for configure.... I guess I
> > need to see what is really going on here...
> 
> After adding many packages to either package.provided, or just porting
> them to EAPI="prefix".  (well in fact just adding them and doing a quick
> scan for possible problems), I finally got portage giving me a whole
> bunch of apps it wanted to emerge on emerge -av system.
> 
> Unfortunately, my luck was spoiled right after removing the -a:
> 
> Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y
> >>> emerge (1 of 70) sys-devel/patch-2.5.9-r1 to /
> !!! Unable to create PORT_LOGDIR
> !!!
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/ufs/fabian/scratch/programs/gentoo/usr/bin/emerge", line 3257, in ?
>     mydepgraph.merge(pkglist)
>   File "/ufs/fabian/scratch/programs/gentoo/usr/bin/emerge", line 1951, in merge    retval=portage.doebuild(y,"clean",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug,cleanup=1,tree="porttree")
>   File "/net/pegasus.ins.cwi.nl/export/scratch0/fabian/programs/gentoo/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2698, in doebuild
>     print "!!!",e
> UnboundLocalError: local variable 'e' referenced before assignment
> 
> 
> Do I understand Python's ****** stacktrace correctly if I think this is
> an error during an error?  I guess figuring out what PORT_LOGDIR should
> be will help...
That 'UnboundLocalError' is a bug in prefix and trunk (fixed also).

That said, I'm wondering what perms/privs you're running as.  The 
port_logdir perm resets shouldn't be failing unless you're running as 
non root and trying to have it modify a dir it lacks privs to...
~harring