After removing sun-jdk-1.4.2.04-r1 emerge doesn't start anymore. unemerging sun-jdk went successful without any errors. So I don't think the long output will help here Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge anyParameter Actual Results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 14, in ? import portage File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6128, in ? settings.regenerate() # XXX: Regenerate use after we get a vartree -- GLOBAL File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1392, in regenerate self.configdict["auto"]["USE"]=autouse(db[root]["vartree"],use_cache=use_cache) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1121, in autouse myresult=dep_check(mydep,myvartree.dbapi,None,use="no",use_cache=use_cache) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3309, in dep_check mylist=flatten(dep_listcleanup(dep_zapdeps(mysplit,mysplit2))) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3052, in dep_zapdeps myresult=dep_zapdeps(unreduced[x],reduced[x]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3038, in dep_zapdeps elif myportapi.match(x): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'match' Expected Results: Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://gentoo.linux.no/ ftp://gentoo.linux.no/pub/gentoo/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="S3TC X aalib acl acpi acpi4linux alsa also apache2 arts autofs avi berkdb bonobo clanJavaScript clanVoice crypt cups dga directfb dvd encode esd evo fbcon foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 java javascript jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozcalendar mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mysql nas ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl pic png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl sis slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff transcode truetype unicode usb x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib"
had to remove all java entries in /var/cache/edb/virtuals *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40831 ***
