Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

[John J. Foster]

Please !!!

This was installed in an empty VM and it would be real slow to recompile
all of Gentoo. There has to be a way to fix it.

Pointers and links greatly appreciated.

TIA,
festus

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 07:22:41PM -0600, John J. Foster wrote:
> I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme
> slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also
> previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not
> really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every
> emerge command returns
>
> festus@gentoovm ~ $ emerge --info
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 31, in ?
>     import emergehelp, xpak, commands, errno, re, socket, string, time, types
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.py", line 7, in ?
>     from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_const.py", line 7, in ?
>     from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE
> ImportError: cannot import name PRIVATE_PATH
>
> I already tried
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml
> but it didn't help. Me thinks I should have done a quickpkg!
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> festus