Read this BEFORE getting a flamethrower This filename in /etc/portage/package.env directory:
'aften'$'\303'
caused a general python DOS, all portage tools related fail with this error:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udcc3' in
position 30: surrogates not allowed
However it's hard to get detected the origin, stracing dispatch-conf did, stracing emerge with forks... don't at least to me.
With all tools fail I want mean ALL, dispatch-conf included for example. Portage was unable to decode from unicode and reencode.If this damned error happens to you check which part of python trace points to, sometimes marks filename as the responsible
I expect that this helps you to avoid getting crazy by this error, avoid crying, and avoid you to reinstall gentoo from the begining and since it's the FOURTH time that it happens to me in four distincts systems, at least I will find a way to find the answer around there in the mail list....
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