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From: Burton Samograd <kruhft@××××.ca>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Serious portage problem...
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:55:32
Message-Id: 20020624210301.GA19749@kruhftwerk.dyndns.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Serious portage problem... by Christophe Vanfleteren
1 I tried that but it sill seems to come up with the same error :-/
2
3 Here's a recap:
4
5 Traceback (most recent call last):
6 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1314, in ?
7 mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist())
8 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 590, in merge
9 retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,edebug)
10 File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1007, in
11 doebuild
12 return
13 merge(settings["CATEGORY"],settings["PF"],settings["D"],settings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,myebuild=settings["EBUILD"])
14 File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1262, in
15 merge
16 mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild)
17 File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3000, in
18 merge
19 self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild)
20 File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2714, in
21 treewalk
22 packagecounter=long(globalcounterfile.readline())
23 ValueError: invalid literal for long():
24
25 Looks like something about a "globalcounterfile" object not being
26 present..i'm not much of a python wizard so i'm not really sure. Any
27 other suggestions?
28
29
30 On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:16:06PM +0200, Christophe Vanfleteren wrote:
31 > On Monday 24 June 2002 21:47, Burton Samograd wrote:
32 > > I seem to be having some wierd problems with portage. Here is an
33 > > example when I try to re-emerge portage:
34 > >
35 > <--lots of errors -->
36 >
37 > Check /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE, you can find
38 > instructions on how to restore portage.
39 >
40 > Christophe Vanfleteren
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