The message is: >>> Updating Portage cache: 100% real 499.00 user 132.90 sys 46.04 * Copying old /var/cache/eix cache to /var/cache/eix.previous * Running update-eix Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. [0] "gentoo" /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata-flat) Reading 50%terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range' what(): basic_string::compare /usr/bin/eix-sync: line 180: 8247 Aborted "${@}" * Failure while running update-eix emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-vs2.2.0.6-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-vs2.2.0.6-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Timestamp of tree: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en ru" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/data/www/htdocs/portage /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="#apache2 acl bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt dri eselect fastcgi fortran gdbm iconv ipv6 isdnlog logrotate midi mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd threads unicode vhosts x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 i915 vesa radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I'd like to confirm this bug. The interesting part is that even returning to eix-0.12.4 or emerging (unstable) eix-0.13.4 will give the same error as well, after this happened once with eix-0.13.3. I tried removing /var/cache/eix, but that won't do the trick. I wonder if the real reason might be something wrong with the portage cache, or a change in eix dependencies.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 238216 ***
