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): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1678, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 286, in action_build settings, trees, myopts, myparams, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 5947, in backtrack_depgraph myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 5966, in _backtrack_depgraph success, favorites = mydepgraph.select_files(myfiles) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 1426, in select_files self._load_vdb() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 320, in _load_vdb fake_vartree.sync() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/FakeVartree.py", line 119, in sync self._sync() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/FakeVartree.py", line 171, in _sync pkg = self._pkg(cpv) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/FakeVartree.py", line 195, in _pkg type_name="installed") File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/Package.py", line 63, in __init__ self._validate_deps() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/Package.py", line 92, in _validate_deps self._metadata_exception(k, e) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/Package.py", line 241, in _metadata_exception "%s: %s in '%s'" % (k, e, path)) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 23: ordinal not in range(128) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm in direct contact at with many advanced fun gmail.com CONCEPTS.
