Hi,

I'm trying to build with catalyst on arm for a basic stage3, but I need
to build from a fairly old stage3 as a seed. Don't ask why :-)

I'm getting this error...

Is there any simple way to get past this ??

Thanks,

Alan.

Catalyst, version 2.0.6
Copyright 2003-2008 Gentoo Foundation
Distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2

Using default Catalyst configuration file, /etc/catalyst/catalyst.conf
Setting sharedir to config file value "/usr/lib/catalyst"
Setting snapshot_cache to config file value
"/var/tmp/catalyst/snapshot_cache"
Setting hash_function to config file value "crc32"
Setting storedir to config file value "/var/tmp/catalyst"
Setting portdir to config file value "/usr/portage"
Setting distdir to config file value "/usr/portage/distfiles"
Setting options to config file value "autoresume kerncache
metadata_overlay pkgcache seedcache snapcache"
Autoresuming support enabled.
Kernel cache support enabled.
Package cache support enabled.
Seed cache support enabled.
Snapshot cache support enabled.
Envscript support enabled.

	WARNING: No value set for key pkgcache_path...deleting

	WARNING: No value set for key portage_overlay...deleting

	WARNING: No value set for key chost...deleting

	WARNING: No value set for key ldflags...deleting

	WARNING: No value set for key portage_confdir...deleting
Using target: stage3
Building natively for arm
Source path set to /var/tmp/catalyst/builds/stage3-arm-20040510.tar.bz2
Caching snapshot to /var/tmp/catalyst/snapshot_cache/20090919/
The autoresume path
is /var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/default/.autoresume-stage3-arm-20090919/
Location of the package cache
is /var/tmp/catalyst/packages/default/stage3-arm-20090919/
Location of the kerncache
is /var/tmp/catalyst/kerncache/default/stage3-arm-20090919/
Checking for processes running in chroot and killing them.
/proc is still mounted; performing auto-bind-umount... Auto-unbind
successful...
--- Running action sequence: unpack
Referenced SEEDCACHE does not appear to be a directory, trying to
untar...
Resume point detected, skipping unpack operation...
--- Running action sequence: unpack_snapshot
Valid snapshot cache, skipping unpack of portage tree...
--- Running action sequence: config_profile_link
Resume point detected, skipping config_profile_link operation...
--- Running action sequence: setup_confdir
--- Running action sequence: portage_overlay
--- Running action sequence: base_dirs
--- Running action sequence: bind
--- Running action sequence: chroot_setup
/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py:45: DeprecationWarning: DEPRECATION
NOTICE: The portage_util module was replaced by portage.util
Resume point detected, skipping chroot_setup operation...
--- Running action sequence: setup_environment
--- Running action sequence: run_local
copying stage3-chroot.sh
to /var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/default/stage3-arm-20090919/tmp/
copying chroot-functions.sh
to /var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/default/stage3-arm-20090919/tmp/
Running stage3-chroot.sh in
chroot /var/tmp/catalyst/tmp/default/stage3-arm-20090919/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/env-update", line 10, in ?
    import portage
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6132, in ?
    portdb=portdbapi(settings["PORTDIR"])
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4432, in __init__
    self.auxdbmodule  =
self.mysettings.load_best_module("portdbapi.auxdbmodule")
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1307, in load_best_module
    return load_mod(best_mod)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 34, in load_mod
    mod = __import__(modname)
ImportError: No module named cache.metadata_overlay
emerge --quiet --usepkg --buildpkg --newuse --oneshot --nodeps
virtual/portage
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 14, in ?
    import portage
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6132, in ?
    portdb=portdbapi(settings["PORTDIR"])
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4432, in __init__
    self.auxdbmodule  =
self.mysettings.load_best_module("portdbapi.auxdbmodule")
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1307, in load_best_module
    return load_mod(best_mod)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 34, in load_mod
    mod = __import__(modname)
ImportError: No module named cache.metadata_overlay

!!! catalyst: run script failed.


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "modules/generic_stage_target.py", line 1250, in run_local
    "run script failed.",env=self.env)
  File "/usr/lib/catalyst/modules/catalyst_support.py", line 539, in cmd
    raise CatalystError,myexc
CatalystError
None

!!! catalyst: Stage build aborting due to error.

!!! catalyst: Error encountered during run of target stage3

Catalyst aborting....