On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:34:24PM +0200, Jean Jordaan wrote: > Hi all > > Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong here? > > """ > blommie todos # emerge --pretend ncftp > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/net-ftp/ncftpTraceback (most recent call > last): > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2133, in ? > mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist()) > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1103, in display > elif (not "--emptytree" in myopts) and > portage.db[x[1]]["vartree"].exists_specific_cat(x[2]): > File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3469, in > exists_specific_cat > self.invalidentry(self.root+"var/db/pkg/"+a[0]+"/"+x) > AttributeError: vartree instance has no attribute 'invalidentry' > blommie todos # emerge --version > !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/net-ftp/ncftp!!! Invalid db entry: > /var/db/pkg/net-misc/tightvnc!!! Using `which gcc` to gcc locate version, > this may break > !!! DISTCC, installing gcc-config and setting your current gcc > !!! profile will fix this > Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-1.0, gcc-2.95.3, glibc-2.2.4-r0,2.2.5-r2, > 2.4.19-gentoo-r9) > """ >
I ran into this a couple of weeks ago. It's a known bug, for full details see: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31901 For the impatient, running /usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.py, and then (if necessary) delete the lock files it reports. - PK > -- > Jean Jordaan > http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
