Hi, I'm building a new system, and I've managed to break it just by
running "emerge python". What happened was that I emerged fetchmail, and
it said that in order for "fetchmailconf" to work I would have to
re-emerge python with the tcltk USE flag set. Actually that flag was
already set, but I think python was built as part of system before I
emerged ufed and set up the flags. Anyway, I ran "emerge python" and it
seemed to build and install just fine, but afterwords, every time python
starts it prints "'import site' failed; use -v for traceback", and when
I try to run emerge it says:
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2, in ?
import os,sys,portage,xpak,string,re,commands,time,threading,shutil
ImportError: No module named portage
If I run "python -v /usr/bin/emerge" it says among other things:
'import site' failed; traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site.py", line 84, in ?
if dir and not os.path.exists(dir):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'argv'
Thinking maybe the portage python module had been deleted or corrupted
or something, I tried untarring the portage rescue tarball (I couldn't
emerge it of course because emerge is broken). It didn't make any
difference to the problem (but it did overwrite /etc/make.conf)
Any ideas why Python has broken (was it something I did wrong or a bug
in the ebuild?) and more importantly, how can I fix it without
reinstalling from scratch?
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