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Adrian wrote:
>  root $  emerge --ask -v world
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> Calculating world dependencies
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3440, in ?
>     if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1416, in xcreate
>     elif not portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x):
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4665, in match
>     mydep=dep_expand(origdep,mydb=self,use_cache=use_cache)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3531, in dep_expand
>     return
> prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb=mydb,use_cache=use_cache)+postfix File
> "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3694, in cpv_expand if (not
> mydb.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache)) and virts and
> virts.has_key(mykey): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line
> 4606, in cp_list
> mystat=os.stat(self.root+VDB_PATH+"/"+mysplit[0])[stat.ST_MTIME]
> TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL
> bytes), not str

It seems that /var/lib/portage/world is corrupt and contains NULL bytes.  You 
should probably check your filesystem for additional corruption.

Zac
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