[gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-user] Trouble with emerge

[Mark Bainter]

I sent this message to gentoo-user the other day, but have gotten 
no response.  I'm hoping someone here can provide some insight.  I 
used google to search the archives and I did find one message that
was similar to this problem indicating that it was a syntax issue,
and to make sure "'s were closed, etc, in the make.conf files.  I
did that and I didn't find anything out of the ordinary.  I also 
checked to make sure my conf files weren't missing anything that was
in the cvs versions, and I didn't see anything.

Anyone have any suggestions for fixing this problem?  

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From: Mark Bainter <mark-gt@×××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Trouble with emerge
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:50:52 -0500

Ok, last night before I figured out the emerge rsync problem I was
having was due to needing to change my SYNC= I tried updating portage,
and rsync (net-misc/rsync).  That wasn't it obviously, so I did more 
digging and found the SYNC issue.  

Now, emerge doesn't work, and I haven't been able to figure out why.  I'm not
really sure it's related to the above, but I figured it was relevent enough to
be worth including here.  I checked the cvs history to see if there was
anything that might indicate why, and it seemed like the latest checkin of
portage.py might be related (fixing an empty USE_ORDER) so I tried using that
version of the module, but it didn't help.  

I'm at a bit of a loss on where to go from here.  I'm relatively new to gentoo,
and thus to portage, so I don't know the build system all that well.  Maybe I'm
missing something obvious.

Anyway, any insight into this problem which you might be able to lend would be
appreciated.

# emerge portage
!!! Invalid token (not "=") 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6, in ?
    import output
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/output.py", line 4, in ?
    import portage;
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3331, in ?
    db["/"]["porttree"]=portagetree("/",virts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2461, in __init__
    self.portroot=settings["PORTDIR"]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 678, in __getitem__
    self.populate()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 664, in populate
    useorder=self["USE_ORDER"]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 685, in __getitem__
    if x.has_key(mykey):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'has_key'

(It doesn't /have/ to be portage, it's the same no matter what I try.)

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