Here's tail-end of a recent "emerge --sync" plus an update attempt...
============================================================= Total bytes sent: 334.55K Total bytes received: 51.72M sent 334.55K bytes received 51.72M bytes 343.63K bytes/sec total size is 178.09M speedup is 3.42 !!! Unable to verify: gemato-14.5+ is required Action: sync for repo: gentoo, returned code = 127 [d531][root][~] emerge -pv --changed-use --deep --update @world * Last emerge --sync was 32d 14h 23m 26s ago. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB ============================================================= And before anyone asks, "emerge -pv1 portage" shows rsync-verify is disabled... ============================================================= Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-3.0.8::gentoo USE="(ipc) native-extensions xattr -apidoc -build -doc -gentoo-dev -rsync-verify (-selinux) -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_7 (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_8 (-python3_9)" 0 KiB ============================================================= OK, so I emerged gemato, and a whole bunch of its dependencies, but that doesn't help... ============================================================= [d531][root][~] emerge --sync >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/var/db/repos/gentoo'... * Using keys from /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/portage/util/_async/AsyncFunction.py", line 39, in _run result = self.target(*(self.args or []), **(self.kwargs or {})) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/portage/sync/controller.py", line 165, in sync taskmaster.run_tasks(tasks, func, status, options=task_opts) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/portage/sync/controller.py", line 65, in run_tasks result = getattr(inst, func)(**kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/portage/sync/syncbase.py", line 338, in sync return self.update() File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/portage/sync/modules/rsync/rsync.py", line 145, in update with io.open(self.repo.sync_openpgp_key_path, 'rb') as f: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc' Action: sync for repo: gentoo, returned code = 1 =============================================================. Now what??? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications