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From: lang@××××××.com
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] emerge broken
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:26:52
Message-Id: 1089.63.204.248.62.1024006398.squirrel@dominion.tharin.com
1 OK, no one has been able to offer a solution to my problem with emerge
2 erroring out with:
3
4 >>> Merging sys-apps/portage-1.9.13 to /
5 Traceback (most recent call last):
6 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1242, in ?
7 mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist())
8 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 619, in merge
9 retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,edebug)
10 File
11 "/var/tmp/portage/portage-1.9.13/image//usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py",line 1102, in doebuild
12 return
13 merge(settings["CATEGORY"],settings["PF"],settings["D"],settings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,myebuild=settings["EBUILD"]) File
14 "/var/tmp/portage/portage-1.9.13/image//usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py",line 1354, in merge
15 mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild)
16 File
17 "/var/tmp/portage/portage-1.9.13/image//usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py",line 3180, in merge
18 self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild)
19 File
20 "/var/tmp/portage/portage-1.9.13/image//usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py",line 2858, in treewalk
21 packagecounter=long(globalcounterfile.readline())
22 ValueError: invalid literal for long():
23
24
25 With any package I try to emerge. I really don't want to reinstall, just
26 don't have a lot of time. Does anyone know offhand if untarring the stage3
27 tarball over my current / directory will do evil things to my system? It's
28 just a shot in the dark, but I'm thinking it might get things in working
29 order, then re emerge the handfull of apps that I use. Any comments on this
30 plan?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge broken Lars Pechan <lars.pechan@××××××××××××.nz>