odin / # emerge portage Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 50, in ? from portage_util import normalize_path as normpath ImportError: cannot import name normalize_path Seems like Portage 2.1.2.2 wants to access files in /usr/lib, even though they're installed in /usr/lib32, as it started working again after I changed the /usr/lib symlink from lib->lib64 to lib->lib32. Using ~arch Portage (2.1.2.3) spits out a different error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5509, in ? retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5211, in emerge_main settings, trees, mtimedb = load_emerge_config() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5096, in load_emerge_config trees = portage.create_trees(trees=trees, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6780, in create_trees config_incrementals=portage_const.INCREMENTALS) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 829, in __init__ config_root = \ File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.py", line 35, in normalize_path if mypath.startswith(os.path.sep): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith' Downgrading to 2.1.1-r2 fixes the problem. Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/dev/32bit-userland, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.20-beyond2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-beyond2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 Last Sync: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:50:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer multilib-strict noinfo noman sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/ ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.ISO8859-15" LC_ALL="en_US.ISO8859-15" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 alsa_cards_ali5451 alsa_cards_als4000 alsa_cards_atiixp alsa_cards_atiixp-modem alsa_cards_bt87x alsa_cards_ca0106 alsa_cards_cmipci alsa_cards_emu10k1x alsa_cards_ens1370 alsa_cards_ens1371 alsa_cards_es1938 alsa_cards_es1968 alsa_cards_fm801 alsa_cards_hda-intel alsa_cards_intel8x0 alsa_cards_intel8x0m alsa_cards_maestro3 alsa_cards_trident alsa_cards_usb-audio alsa_cards_via82xx alsa_cards_via82xx-modem alsa_cards_ymfpci alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dri elibc_glibc fortran gdbm gpm iconv input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog kernel_linux lcd_devices_bayrad lcd_devices_cfontz lcd_devices_cfontz633 lcd_devices_glk lcd_devices_hd44780 lcd_devices_lb216 lcd_devices_lcdm001 lcd_devices_mtxorb lcd_devices_ncurses lcd_devices_text libg++ midi ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i810 video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo xorg zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I've tested and everything seems to work fine with portage-2.1.2.3 if you run `source /etc/profile` after it's installed. The problem is that the instructions in default-linux/amd64/dev/32bit-userland/README tell you to run the following command: find /usr/lib64 /lib64 -exec touch {} \; When you do that, it changes the timestamps on the old version of portage and prevents it from being properly unmerged. If you don't run `source /etc/profile` to update the PYTHONPATH environment variable, it causes emerge to import the old portage libraries that are still installed. As a solution for this bug, I'd recommend to update the 32bit-userland README with a note that people who upgrade to >=portage-2.1.2.2 need to run `source /etc/profile` afterwards.
If /usr/lib does not point to lib32 then you'll need at least portage-2.1.2.3 in order for etc-update to work properly (bug 170178).
`source /etc/profile` fixed it here too, I have to use Portage 2.1.2.3 though, since changing the /usr/lib symlink to lib32 breaks my toolchain as long as gcc and glibc fail to emerge So adding that source thingy and a note that portage-2.1.2.3 is needed to the README sounds like a good idea, amd64 is already on CC /me pings blubb
fixed as 2.1.2.7 is stable now.
