No longer able to emerge :(

[sydbarrett74]

Hi all. I can no longer emerge anything. I get the following error:

$ emerge <name of package>
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) <category>/<name of package> to /
>>> Downloading http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/<name of package>.tar.bz2
######################################################################## 100.0%
>>> md5 src_uri Wink <name of package>.tar.bz2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2943, in ?
mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist())
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1795, in merge
retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2516, in doebuild
return merge(mysettings["CATEGORY"],mysettings["PF"],mysettings["D"],mysettings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,mysettings,myebuild=mysettings["EBUILD"])
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2649, in merge
return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6602, in merge
return self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild,cleanup=cleanup)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6107, in treewalk
os.chdir(srcroot)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/tmp/portage/<name of package>/image/'

NOTE: Anywhere you see <name of package> simply subsitute any portage name.

I tried regenworld and that didn't work. HELP!!!

[trentin]

Hi, exactly this same thing has happened to me, after i updated portage yesterday.
I was getting exactly the same errors, and was unable to emerge anything. So far, i have not found any solutions for this, and since i was quite fed up with the whole thing, i uninstalled the whole portage using the uninstall.pl script....

I hope that after i do a fresh install, the problem will go away, because i really don't have the nerve to debug the thing...