I rebuild portage (emerge -e world) on a system with flaky memory. I fixed the memory, but now when I try to re-emerge anything I get this error: # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 42, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1378, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 276, in action_build settings, trees, myopts, myparams, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 5420, in backtrack_depgraph myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 5438, in _backtrack_depgraph success, favorites = mydepgraph.select_files(myfiles) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 1512, in select_files self._load_vdb() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 277, in _load_vdb fake_vartree.sync() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/FakeVartree.py", line 102, in sync self._sync() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/FakeVartree.py", line 152, in _sync pkg = self._pkg(cpv) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/FakeVartree.py", line 171, in _pkg type_name="installed") File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Package.py", line 53, in __init__ self.masks = self._masks() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Package.py", line 67, in _masks if not portage.eapi_is_supported(eapi): File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 6064, in eapi_is_supported eapi = str(eapi).strip() UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufffd' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) Any suggested work-aroudns that would let me re-emerge portage when portage won't run? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge [anything] 2. 3. Actual Results: # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 42, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1378, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 276, in action_build settings, trees, myopts, myparams, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 5420, in backtrack_depgraph myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 5438, in _backtrack_depgraph success, favorites = mydepgraph.select_files(myfiles) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 1512, in select_files self._load_vdb() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 277, in _load_vdb fake_vartree.sync() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/FakeVartree.py", line 102, in sync self._sync() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/FakeVartree.py", line 152, in _sync pkg = self._pkg(cpv) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/FakeVartree.py", line 171, in _pkg type_name="installed") File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Package.py", line 53, in __init__ self.masks = self._masks() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Package.py", line 67, in _masks if not portage.eapi_is_supported(eapi): File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 6064, in eapi_is_supported eapi = str(eapi).strip() UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufffd' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) Expected Results: portage to emerge properly This does not seem to be a true "bug" in portage, rather an error in my particular installation. I report it here only to see if there is a work-around other than complete re-installation of my gentoo system.
It looks like you have a corrupt /var/db/pkg/*/*/EAPI file. This should solve it: grep -l '[^[:digit:]]' /var/db/pkg/*/*/EAPI | while read x ; do echo 0 > $x ; done
Created attachment 212812 [details, diff] avoid the UnicodeEncodeError Save as /tmp/corrupt_eapi.patch and apply as follows: patch /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py /tmp/corrupt_eapi.patch
(In reply to comment #2) > Created an attachment (id=212812) [details] > avoid the UnicodeEncodeError > > Save as /tmp/corrupt_eapi.patch and apply as follows: > > patch /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py /tmp/corrupt_eapi.patch > Thanks, Zac. I tried your first suggestion, and that solved the problem for me. I got a bunch of error messages of the type "Null byte found in CONTENTS entry", but portage emerged properly, and I am able to emerge other packages.
The fix hasn't been released yet.
This is fixed in 2.1.7.14 and 2.2_rc59.
