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From: Lars Pechan <lars.pechan@××××××××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge broken
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 18:11:29
Message-Id: 200206141111.24890.lars.pechan@paradise.net.nz
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] emerge broken by lang@tharin.com
1 This, unfortunately, is not an uncommon problem:
2 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1829
3
4 Should get you up and running again. I also remember seeing a post offering a
5 script to recreate the counter file with the correct number of packages in
6 it.
7
8 HTH
9
10 /Lasse
11
12 On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:13, lang@××××××.com wrote:
13 > OK, no one has been able to offer a solution to my problem with emerge
14 >
15 > erroring out with:
16 > >>> Merging sys-apps/portage-1.9.13 to /
17 >
18 > Traceback (most recent call last):
19 > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1242, in ?
20 > mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist())
21 > File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 619, in merge
22 > retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,edebug)
23 > File
24 > "/var/tmp/portage/portage-1.9.13/image//usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/por
25 >tage.py",line 1102, in doebuild return
26 > merge(settings["CATEGORY"],settings["PF"],settings["D"],settings["BUILDDIR"
27 >]+"/build-info",myroot,myebuild=settings["EBUILD"]) File
28 > "/var/tmp/portage/portage-1.9.13/image//usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/por
29 >tage.py",line 1354, in merge mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild)
30 > File
31 > "/var/tmp/portage/portage-1.9.13/image//usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/por
32 >tage.py",line 3180, in merge
33 > self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild)
34 > File
35 > "/var/tmp/portage/portage-1.9.13/image//usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/por
36 >tage.py",line 2858, in treewalk
37 > packagecounter=long(globalcounterfile.readline())
38 > ValueError: invalid literal for long():
39 >
40 >
41 > With any package I try to emerge. I really don't want to reinstall, just
42 > don't have a lot of time. Does anyone know offhand if untarring the stage3
43 > tarball over my current / directory will do evil things to my system? It's
44 > just a shot in the dark, but I'm thinking it might get things in working
45 > order, then re emerge the handfull of apps that I use. Any comments on this
46 > plan?
47 >
48 >
49 >
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