Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eix-sync failure
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:51:18
Message-Id: 48D74057.70002@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] eix-sync failure by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > I am not sure what's causing this:
3 > ===============================================
4 >
5 >>>> Updating Portage cache: 100%
6 >>>>
7 > real 1167.44
8 > user 76.27
9 > sys 29.21
10 > * Copying old /var/cache/eix cache to /var/cache/eix.previous
11 > * Running update-eix
12 > Reading Portage settings ..
13 > Building database (/var/cache/eix) ..
14 > [0] "gentoo" /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-flat)
15 > Reading 50%terminate called after throwing an instance
16 > of 'std::out_of_range'
17 > what(): basic_string::compare
18 > /usr/bin/eix-sync: line 180: 7574 Aborted "${@}"
19 > * Failure while running update-eix
20 > ===============================================
21 >
22 > I have removed /usr/portage/metadata/*, as well as /var/cache/edb but the
23 > error remains.
24 >
25
26 One fix, sync if you haven't today then upgrade eix. The version of eix
27 you need is app-portage/eix-0.13.5 that was released in the last day or
28 so. It is keyworded/masked as well.
29
30 Dale
31
32 :-) :-)