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From: Alan <alan@×××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] sudden portage error "list index out of range"
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:04:04
Message-Id: 20060609165338.GH23766@ufies.org
1 Wanted to do some installs today and suddenly my portage is puking out
2 with
3
4 Traceback (most recent call last):
5 File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 10, in ?
6 import portage
7 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7187, in ?
8 settings=config(config_profile_path=PROFILE_PATH,config_incrementals=portage_const.INCREMENTALS)
9 File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 946, in __init__
10 mypath = os.path.normpath(mypath+"///"+grabfile(mypath+"/parent")[0])
11 IndexError: list index out of range
12
13 This happens with any emerge command. I'm going to guess that something
14 got currupted somewhere along the way, any suggestions on how to unbreak
15 it (without downloading a binary hopefully :)?
16
17 The last things in my emerge.log are installing the man-pages package,
18 and a couple of these:
19
20 1149810120: Started emerge on: Jun 08, 2006 16:42:00
21 1149810120: *** emerge --ask --verbose jabberd jabber-base yahoo-transport twisted-words twisted-web twisted
22 1149810121: *** terminating.
23
24 (nothing actually installed).
25
26 Any ideas?
27
28 TIA
29
30
31 Thanks.
32
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34 Alan <alan@×××××.org> - http://arcterex.net
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