Thanks for the quick reply! It's probably my fault or I'm mis-reading something in your reply but my system is built with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" from the beginning. The masking notes say the ~ should be there. Is that not correct? It's late for me here so it's probably a goof on my part. :)
I don't think it makes a diff on the desktop I'm using but just in case I'm using KDE 3.2.0 beta1 Thanks again! Robert On Mon December 01 2003 10:53 pm, Allen Parker wrote: > You should definitely file your own bug report. One of the caveats of > running "~x86" is that sometimes things are just broken. I'd suggest a > rebuild with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" instead as portage-2.0.49-r15 is > working fine for me. If there are things that are masked > unstable/experimental that you need, you can always emerge search <package> > cd > /usr/portage/<package-base>/<package> and then emerge > <package>-<version>-<revision>.ebuild > > Carpaski, I cc'd you because you are of course the minor deity of all that > is portage! I invoke thee, in the name of Gentoo, please bestow help upon > this poor user and fix his portage! > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert Cole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 1:35 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [gentoo-user] portage problems > > > > A while back while installing an app I got this error: > > > > ws1 root # emerge -p mplayer > > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2200, in ? > > mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist()) > > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1105, in display > > elif (not "--emptytree" in myopts) and portage.db[x[1]] > > ["vartree"].exists_specific_cat(x[2]): > > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3480, in > > exists_specific_cat > > self.invalidentry(self.root+"var/db/pkg/"+a[0]+"/"+x) > > AttributeError: vartree instance has no attribute 'invalidentry' > > > > And I get it frequently now and sometimes can't install apps as in this > > case. > > > > I'm running > > ws1 root # emerge -V > > Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, > > 2.6.0-test10-mm1) > > > > I've searched and searched the forums and bug reports and tried several > > things > > like deleting the world file but nothing has helped. > > > > Is there something I'm missing here? :) Anyone have any idea how to fix > > this? > > > > Thanks! > > Robert > > > > ps. FYI, This is a newly built system from stage 1 using USE=pic and > > CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe" > > and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
