[gentoo-user] odd emerge problem

[Adrian]

Greetings all;

Emerge is doing some odd things.  Most of the time it works, but when I
try to run 

emerge -pv world 

I get:
---------------------------------
Mon Aug 21 19:47:13
/usr/portage/distfiles/portage-snapshots
 root $  emerge -pv world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating world dependencies
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3440, in ?
    if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1416, in xcreate
    elif not portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4665, in match
    mydep=dep_expand(origdep,mydb=self,use_cache=use_cache)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3531, in dep_expand
    return
prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb=mydb,use_cache=use_cache)+postfix File
"/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3694, in cpv_expand if (not
mydb.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache)) and virts and
virts.has_key(mykey): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line
4606, in cp_list
mystat=os.stat(self.root+VDB_PATH+"/"+mysplit[0])[stat.ST_MTIME]
TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL
bytes), not str

----------------------------

emerge -pv system

works just fine.  I have been & currently am installing other things.
I've gotten the same (or a very similar) message when trying to install
or fetch some packages, but I can consistently reproduce this when I
try to do the emerge -pv world.  Or anything else with the 'world'.
--------------------------------
Mon Aug 21 19:47:38
/usr/portage/distfiles/portage-snapshots
 root $  emerge --ask -v world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating world dependencies
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3440, in ?
    if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1416, in xcreate
    elif not portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4665, in match
    mydep=dep_expand(origdep,mydb=self,use_cache=use_cache)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3531, in dep_expand
    return
prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb=mydb,use_cache=use_cache)+postfix File
"/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3694, in cpv_expand if (not
mydb.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache)) and virts and
virts.has_key(mykey): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line
4606, in cp_list
mystat=os.stat(self.root+VDB_PATH+"/"+mysplit[0])[stat.ST_MTIME]
TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL
bytes), not str

-----------------
and
----------------

Mon Aug 21 19:51:51
/usr/portage/distfiles/portage-snapshots
 root $  emerge -f world

Calculating world dependencies

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3440, in ?
    if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1416, in xcreate
    elif not portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4665, in match
    mydep=dep_expand(origdep,mydb=self,use_cache=use_cache)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3531, in dep_expand
    return
prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb=mydb,use_cache=use_cache)+postfix File
"/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3694, in cpv_expand if (not
mydb.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache)) and virts and
virts.has_key(mykey): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line
4606, in cp_list
mystat=os.stat(self.root+VDB_PATH+"/"+mysplit[0])[stat.ST_MTIME]
TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL
bytes), not str

---------------------------

As always, I am very thankful for any assistance or leads.

Adrian




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