Re: [gentoo-user] portage failed to upgrade

[Space Cake <spacecakex@gmail.com>]

On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 16.16.54 CEST, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Space Cake <spacecakex@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 16.02.15 CEST, Michael Mol wrote:
>>> 2011/8/31 Space Cake <spacecakex@gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> For a few days my routine upgrades failing at portage with the following
>>>> message. Do you have any idea what does it means?
>>>>
>>>> File
>>>> "/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.11/image/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/tests/runTests",
>>>> line 21, in <module>
>>>>    os.environ["PORTAGE_GRPNAME"] = grp.getgrgid(os.getgid()).gr_name
>>>> KeyError: 'getgrgid(): gid not found: 0'
>>>>
>>>> I've tried to google this, but nothing has found
>>>
>>> A new portage went stable a few days ago. You might try explicitly
>>> upgrading portage, and then continuing.
>>
>> Yes, this is what I've tried, but it is failed with the message above
> 
> By the error, it looks like the code expected to be run as gid 0, but wasn't.
> 
> I assume you ran etc-update?
> 
> What about a downgrade? Could you downgrade portage to the last stable
> version (not sure what that is), and then upgrade it again? (I'd wait
> for someone else to chime in before you do this. It may be a riskier
> move than is obvious. I'm not sure.)

Yes, etc-update is also routine for me and I'm on stable 

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