[gentoo-user] either emerge or portage is completely broken
I ran emerge sync earlier this evening and I got the following at the end of the output: Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2005 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' .Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 10, in ? import portage File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 7480, in ? do_upgrade(mykey) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 7385, in do_upgrade key=dep_getkey(line.split()[0]) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 3609, in dep_getkey if mydep[-1]==*: IndexError: string index out of range I now get the same error messages when I try to emerge anything, including portage. In other words portage is completely broken. What should I do? Many thanks Robert -- Robert Persson -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] either emerge or portage is completely broken
On Friday 30 December 2005 14:27, Robert Persson wrote: I ran emerge sync earlier this evening and I got the following at the end of the output: Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2005 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' .Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 10, in ? import portage File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 7480, in ? do_upgrade(mykey) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 7385, in do_upgrade key=dep_getkey(line.split()[0]) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 3609, in dep_getkey if mydep[-1]==*: IndexError: string index out of range I now get the same error messages when I try to emerge anything, including portage. In other words portage is completely broken. What should I do? One of your /etc/portage/package.* files contains an invalid atom. By the look of the traceback, you have a line with just a * perhaps? -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] either emerge or portage is completely broken
On December 29, 2005 10:31 pm Jason Stubbs was like: One of your /etc/portage/package.* files contains an invalid atom. By the look of the traceback, you have a line with just a * perhaps? Jason Stubbs That was it! Thanks! I had a line reading * media-video/mpeg4ip in /etc/portage/package.mask Robert -- Robert Persson Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults. (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
