SOLVED - Re: [gentoo-user] sudden portage error "list index out of range"

SOLVED - Re: [gentoo-user] sudden portage error "list index out of range"

[Mark Knecht]

emerge subversion took care of it. Whatever was wrong was not caught
by revdep-rebuild. I'm not sure if this is a bug. should it be
submitted to bugzilla?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Mark

On 6/9/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/9/06, James Ausmus <james.ausmus@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/9/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 6/9/06, Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > > Hash: SHA1
> > > >
> > > > Alan wrote:
> > > > > Wanted to do some installs today and suddenly my portage is puking out
> > > > > with
> > > > >
> > > > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > > >   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 10, in ?
> > > > >     import portage
> > > > >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7187, in ?
> > > > >     settings=config(config_profile_path=PROFILE_PATH,config_incrementals=portage_const.INCREMENTALS)
> > > > >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 946, in __init__
> > > > >     mypath = os.path.normpath(mypath+"///"+grabfile(mypath+"/parent")[0])
> > > > > IndexError: list index out of range
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > That's bug 136209.  Here's the fix:
> > > >
> > > > echo '..' > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/parent
> > > >
> > > > Zac
> > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux)
> > > >
> > > > iD8DBQFEibZd/ejvha5XGaMRAj3DAJ0fNqVNjZYPrFMHHyLP2+zA3e7aEACgzDyK
> > > > BMM616uI/cqCKiW7WaiIyy0=
> > > > =xwgL
> > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > > > --
> > > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > >
> > > Thanks Zac,
> > >    I had the same problem and this fix worked great. (Thanks to the
> > > AMD64 list for pointing me here.)
> > >
> > >    At the same time the previous error started I also got this second
> > > error with layman:
> > >
> > > lightning ~ # layman -s pro-audio
> > > * Running command "/usr/bin/svn update /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio"...
> > > /usr/bin/svn: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libaprutil-0.so.0:
> > > undefined symbol: gdbm_errno
> > > * Successfully synchronized overlay "pro-audio".
> > > lightning ~ #
> > >
> >
> > Run revdep-rebuild, you have some applications of out sync with
> > updated versions of shared libraries.
> >
> > -James
> >
> James,
>    Sorry. Should have said that I had done that already. Seemed
> obvious that some library was missing but revdep-rebuild didn't find
> one to install. It says the machine is clean.
>
>    I also did a number of emerge --deep --update --newuse world
> operations trying to find things that might be neede dor updatable but
> nothing turned up.
>
> Stumped,
> Mark
>
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