Re: [gentoo-dev] [BUG] portage broken after emerge sync

[KRimminal]

Sven Köhler wrote:

> hi,
>
> i downloaded the latest stage3 tarball and tried to download the
> portage by doing "emerge sync". i got the error below, so i used a
> portage-snapshot for a while, and now retried to sync. i still get the
> same error. what's wrong?
>
> it seems that myportapi is None, but i couldn't figure out why :-(
> i could have submitted that to Bugzilla, but this is really urgent.
>
> here's the stack-trace:
>
> >>> Updating Portage cache...  ...done!
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2250, in ?
>     reload(portage)
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6128, in ?
>     settings.regenerate() # XXX: Regenerate use after we get a vartree
> -- GLOBAL
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1392, in regenerate
>
> self.configdict["auto"]["USE"]=autouse(db[root]["vartree"],use_cache=use_cache)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1121, in autouse
>
> myresult=dep_check(mydep,myvartree.dbapi,None,use="no",use_cache=use_cache)
>
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3309, in dep_check
>     mylist=flatten(dep_listcleanup(dep_zapdeps(mysplit,mysplit2)))
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3052, in dep_zapdeps
>     myresult=dep_zapdeps(unreduced[x],reduced[x])
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3038, in dep_zapdeps
>     elif myportapi.match(x):
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'match'
>
> emerge info:
>   impossible, only get error-message above
>
>
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>
try to emerge portage;
maybe the reinstall will 'cure it'
if that doesn't work, try looking through your use flags.

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