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 1KtTQq-0005AI-K8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:38:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FED3E0352; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:38:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B5BE0352 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:38:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B082645B1 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:38:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.824 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.824 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.775, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] 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 wBv8xvsaPSxw for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:38:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E011D6454D for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:38:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KtTQT-0002ij-Pr for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:38:30 +0000 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:38:29 +0000 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:38:29 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: python-updater broken Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:38:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1224723977.19535.10.camel@localhost> 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@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080829 SeaMonkey/1.1.12) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 9029e695-caae-4ec5-bee2-9fa764e36392 X-Archives-Hash: 2b42c80e312988aaedbe3591b7b8e978 Albert Hopkins letterboxes.org> writes: > Perhaps you can run strace (or bash -x) on it to see where it's hanging. Oh, I would not know the syntax. No man page for strace. more info? syntax suggestions? The machine hoses everytime I run python-update. > > # eselect python list > > !!! Error: Can't load module python > Probably because there is no eselect module for python installed (there > isn't one on any my machines). Right, so now I installed it and it says: Available python interpreters: [1] python2.4 [2] python2.5 * So why does python-updater have to be used at all? Everything else seems fine.... James