From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OtShv-0005fL-Ls for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:01:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F7B7E06C0; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 627BBE06C0 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3E761B4006 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:00:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.124 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.124 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.475, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id j+OfUxkM3Zhz for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:00:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39CFC1B400E for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:00:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OtSgv-0003PX-Hq for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:29 +0200 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:29 +0200 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] portage broken because of Unicode bugs Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:00:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: 2fa06261-c70c-479d-96da-506294814d6b X-Archives-Hash: 572811df580ef9e59da48c68f72c213a After my last update, portage stopped working. Google led me to believe it was this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317775 Which was said to be fixed in portage 2.1.9. So I upgraded from 2.1.8.X to 2.1.9.1, and now portage is even more broken. Now I can't even use it to downgrade to the older version of portage (which would at least work if you ran it using --quiet). This is a fine kettle of fish.... alpha grante # emerge --quiet portage Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1678, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 286, in action_build settings, trees, myopts, myparams, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 5947, in backtrack_depgraph myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 5966, in _backtrack_depgraph success, favorites = mydepgraph.select_files(myfiles) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 1426, in select_files self._load_vdb() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 320, in _load_vdb fake_vartree.sync() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/FakeVartree.py", line 119, in sync self._sync() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/FakeVartree.py", line 171, in _sync pkg = self._pkg(cpv) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/FakeVartree.py", line 195, in _pkg type_name="installed") File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/Package.py", line 63, in __init__ self._validate_deps() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/Package.py", line 92, in _validate_deps self._metadata_exception(k, e) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/Package.py", line 241, in _metadata_exception "%s: %s in '%s'" % (k, e, path)) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 23: ordinal not in range(128) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm in direct contact at with many advanced fun gmail.com CONCEPTS.