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On Friday 30 December 2005 14:27, Robert Persson wrote: |
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> I ran emerge sync earlier this evening and I got the following at the end |
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> of the output: |
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> Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2005 |
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> (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) |
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> .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' |
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> s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update |
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> /etc/portage/package.*' .Traceback (most recent call last): |
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> File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 10, in ? |
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> import portage |
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> File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7480, in ? |
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> do_upgrade(mykey) |
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> File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7385, in do_upgrade |
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> key=dep_getkey(line.split()[0]) |
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> File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3609, in dep_getkey |
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> if mydep[-1]=="*": |
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> IndexError: string index out of range |
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> |
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> I now get the same error messages when I try to emerge anything, including |
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> portage. In other words portage is completely broken. |
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> |
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> What should I do? |
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One of your /etc/portage/package.* files contains an invalid atom. By the look |
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of the traceback, you have a line with just a "*" perhaps? |
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Jason Stubbs |
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