Re: [gentoo-user] sudden portage error "list index out of range"

[Mark Knecht]

On 6/9/06, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
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> Alan wrote:
> > Wanted to do some installs today and suddenly my portage is puking out
> > with
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 10, in ?
> >     import portage
> >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7187, in ?
> >     settings=config(config_profile_path=PROFILE_PATH,config_incrementals=portage_const.INCREMENTALS)
> >   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 946, in __init__
> >     mypath = os.path.normpath(mypath+"///"+grabfile(mypath+"/parent")[0])
> > IndexError: list index out of range
> >
>
> That's bug 136209.  Here's the fix:
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> echo '..' > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/parent
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> Zac
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Thanks Zac,
   I had the same problem and this fix worked great. (Thanks to the
AMD64 list for pointing me here.)

   At the same time the previous error started I also got this second
error with layman:

lightning ~ # layman -s pro-audio
* Running command "/usr/bin/svn update /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio"...
/usr/bin/svn: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libaprutil-0.so.0:
undefined symbol: gdbm_errno
* Successfully synchronized overlay "pro-audio".
lightning ~ #

   Any ideas on this one? It was not fixed using the echo command, but
it seems similar to me. I don't know what libaprutil is. I don't see
it using eix.

Cheers,
Mark
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