Nevermind. It seems to have fixed itself. I have no idea how, because I did not emerge anything and I did not reboot or restart anything. Go figure.
++ kevin On 5/26/05, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the portage here just died of a python bite. Skipping to the > bottom line, > Python is complaining there's no package named "path". However, I can > "import os.path" which is what I usually do. So I'm not sure what's actually > broken, or how to fix it. > > Help please? I've put some brief details below. > > ++ kevin > > I did my usual > emerge -aDvu world > and there was nothing to do, so I said "no", and expected a prompt. Nope. > I hit control-C and got the following: > > > Nothing to merge; do you want me to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] no > > > > Quitting. > > > > > > > > treat root # !!! global name 'portageexit' is not defined in //etc/make.conf > > !!! Incorrect multiline literals can cause this. Do not use them. > > > > treat root # > > I didn't (and still don't) know what that really means. I didn't > worry about it too much. > But later, I went to do the same command, and it died almost > immediately, telling > me that Python had bit the dust (or just bit portage). I haven't > explored much else > yet. > > > treat root # emerge -aDvu world; etc-update > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > > > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB > > > > Nothing to merge; do you want me to auto-clean packages? [Yes/No] no > > > > Quitting. > > > > > > treat root # 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback > > > > > > !!! Failed to complete python imports. There are internal modules for > > !!! python and failure here indicates that you have a problem with python > > !!! itself and thus portage is no able to continue processing. > > > > !!! You might consider starting python with verbose flags to see what has > > !!! gone wrong. Here is the information we got for this exception: > > No module named path > > > > > > -- > Go back to the top: I almost always top-post > Kevin O'Gorman, PhD > -- Go back to the top: I almost always top-post Kevin O'Gorman, PhD -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
