On 2010-09-08, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > After my last update, portage stopped working. Google led me to > believe it was this bug: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317775 > > Which was said to be fixed in portage 2.1.9. > > So I upgraded from 2.1.8.X to 2.1.9.1, and now portage is even more > broken. Now I can't even use it to downgrade to the older version of > portage (which would at least work if you ran it using --quiet). > > This is a fine kettle of fish.... > > alpha grante # emerge --quiet portage > Traceback (most recent call last):
The manual portage recovery directions served well: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml After that it took three "emerge portage" commands before portage would emerge cleanly. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ONE LIFE TO LIVE for at ALL MY CHILDREN in ANOTHER gmail.com WORLD all THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES.
