emerge rsync -> broken portage

[zorloc]

I run a cron job running "emerge rsync" to get the newest packages every night. And then a "emerge --pretend update" and emerge --pretend --world update" to see what needs updating. After my last emerge rsync (4am Pacific May 2nd) portage is ~broken. I can run "emerge rsync" and "emerge system" but "emerge update" fails:

hal etc # emerge --pretend update

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating system dependencies !!! Name error in m: category or package part missing.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 790, in ?
mydepgraph.syscreate(mylines)
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 267, in syscreate
self.create(self.match(myline,mykey="update (likely old /var/db/pkg entry)"))
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 270, in match
myeb=self.db[portage.root]["porttree"].dep_bestmatch(mydep)
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 1590, in dep_bestmatch
if not self.hasnode(mykey):
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 1360, in hasnode
self.populate()
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 1850, in populate
self.zap(y)
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 1291, in zap
mykey=cps[0]+"/"+cps[1]
TypeError: unsubscriptable object

I have not updated my gentoo installation on 2 machines to 1.0+ yet.

HELP?

[jlewis]

I'm seeing the exact same error. I tried following a suggestion offered in another post on this forum -- untarring and using the portage-rescue package (as described in /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE), but to no avail.

[AnimalMachine]

I'm getting a similar problem, but my output looks like this:

root@punchbowl portage # emerge app-arch/rpm2targz/ --pretend

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating dependencies !!! Name error in m: category or package part missing.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/emerge", line 817, in ?
mykey=mydepgraph.db[portage.root]["porttree"].dep_bestmatch(mypkg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 1626, in dep_bestmatch
if not self.hasnode(mypkgdep):
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 1360, in hasnode
self.populate()
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 1850, in populate
self.zap(y)
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 1291, in zap
mykey=cps[0]+"/"+cps[1]
TypeError: unsubscriptable object


I've also tried rescuing portage using 1.9.5, but the error hasn't changed so I guess that's not the problem. Anyone out there with any suggestions?

[arkane]

three people having the issue?
I'd file a bug report..... I haven't upgraded my portage to the new one. I only do system updates infrequently.

[steveD]

I "emerge rsync" almost daily. So far, no problem.
I guess the problem may come from the portage and python version.
You may need to update the "python" package and then the "portage" package. Use the -b option whenever "emerge" to build a bianry .tbz2 package. For the 2 important system packages "python" and "portage", you may need to keep the working version somewhere in case upgrade has problems (cannot run emerge rsync). When upgrade has problem, just copy the old version of "python" and "portage" to / and tar -jxpf to restore it.

[Nitro]

What version of portage are you guys running?

[TheMole]

bash-2.05a# emerge -V
Calculating dependencies !!! Name error in m: category or package part missing.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/emerge", line 817, in ?
mykey=mydepgraph.db[portage.root]["porttree"].dep_bestmatch(mypkg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 1546, in dep_bestmatch
mypkgdep=self.dep_pkgcat(mypkgdep)
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 1529, in dep_pkgcat
if self.hasnode(cat+"/"+mypkgdep_packagename):
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 1360, in hasnode
self.populate()
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 1850, in populate
self.zap(y)
File "/usr/lib/python2.0/site-packages/portage.py", line 1291, in zap
mykey=cps[0]+"/"+cps[1]
TypeError: unsubscriptable object


Even that, I can not answer... now lemme see, where do I fill out this bug report thingy...

[Nitro]

You can try repairing portage.

[zorloc]

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2335

[AnimalMachine]

I've gone back to Portage 1.8.19, and then I ran into another problem with it complaining about missing python-fchksum, so I manually untar'd version 1.6.1 of that and installed it.

Now when I try to emerge something, I get:

root@punchbowl portage # emerge app-arch/rpm2targz/ --pretend
Calculating dependencies \Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/emerge", line 1309, in ?
mydepgraph.create(mytype+" "+portage.root+" "+mykey,None,"--onlydeps" not in myopts)
File "/usr/sbin/emerge", line 400, in create
mydb=open(mydbkey,"r")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/edb/dep/dep-rpm2targz-8.0.ebuild'

Not sure if any of that helps...

[steveD]

I used to see a lot of file in /var/cache/ebd/dep.
Lately, I see none. My current portage version is 1.9.6. Maybe some recent portage versions no longer uses these files and the folder was cleaned up.
I never erase any file in this folder, so must be the portage cleaned it.
Now, there are only 3 files: counter, virtuals, world in that folder.

[j lewis]

Up until about 5 min ago, I was still seeing the same emerge problems that I've been having over the past two days. Then I ran emerge rsync once again, and now everything seems to be working again:

# emerge --pretend ruby

These are the packages that I would merge, in order.

Calculating dependencies. done!
[ebuild R ] dev-lang/ruby-1.6.7 to /

Try rsync'ing again and see if that doesn't help.

-- Jeff

[AnimalMachine]

Just rsync'd and I still have the same problem.

[edis]

[AnimalMachine]

That works!
Thanks!