From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JbRby-0000uL-H2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:31:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2087FE0652; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:31:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F22DCE0652 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:31:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A0B2D6957 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:31:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:31:32 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: p7jUlUPxg+6BH5Sisipz4NKi+1um5mAzGPtTPcM6sPSF 1205807492 Received: from localhost (unknown [72.54.98.13]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1787E10CDE for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:31:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:31:29 -0600 From: "John J. Foster" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage Message-ID: <20080318023129.GA3286@gentoovm.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20080317012241.GA1689@gentoovm.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="gKMricLos+KVdGMg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080317012241.GA1689@gentoovm.localdomain> Organization: Representing the Mambo User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 7213a0a0-d116-4d48-89af-773d01aa048d X-Archives-Hash: f06f48224df80c45256422b08b2fd258 --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please !!! This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it. Pointers and links greatly appreciated. TIA, festus On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 07:22:41PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote: > I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme > slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also > previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not > really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every > emerge command returns >=20 > festus@gentoovm ~ $ emerge --info > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 31, in ? > import emergehelp, xpak, commands, errno, re, socket, string, time, t= ypes > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.py", line 7, in ? > from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSI= ZE > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_const.py", line 7, in ? > from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSI= ZE > ImportError: cannot import name PRIVATE_PATH >=20 > I already tried > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml > but it didn't help. Me thinks I should have done a quickpkg! >=20 > Any help greatly appreciated. >=20 > Thanks, > festus --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH3ymB4FEnevDNLQ4RAtMpAJ99pw2zxVTiZ1UJscTg8qpjvM010wCeNl3W RINIEBU/XVhpxsCCyvX9PSE= =0lK8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gKMricLos+KVdGMg-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list