# emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 2) sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.17 to / * sandbox-1.2.17.tar.bz2 MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * sandbox-1.2.17.tar.bz2 RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * sandbox-1.2.17.tar.bz2 SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * sandbox-1.2.17.tar.bz2 SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * sandbox-1.2.17.tar.bz2 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking sandbox-1.2.17.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in ? emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4044, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3584, in action_build mergetask.merge(pkglist, favorites, mtimedb) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2048, in merge prev_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2949, in doebuild os.symlink(os.path.join(orig_distdir, file), AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'symlink' # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1 (hardened/x86, gcc-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.4.31-hardened i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.31-hardened i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1266MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 Last Sync: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:00:01 +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: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.12-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19-r1, 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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/" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 bzip2 crypt elibc_glibc hardened innodb input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 kerberos kernel_linux mailwrapper mysql ncurses pam pic png readline ssl tcpd userland_GNU userlocales zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS # emerge nano Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-editors/nano-1.3.12-r1 to / * nano-1.3.12.tar.gz MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * nano-1.3.12.tar.gz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * nano-1.3.12.tar.gz SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * nano-1.3.12.tar.gz SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * nano-1.3.12.tar.gz size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking nano-1.3.12.tar.gz ;-) ... [ ok ] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in ? emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4044, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3584, in action_build mergetask.merge(pkglist, favorites, mtimedb) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2048, in merge prev_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2949, in doebuild os.symlink(os.path.join(orig_distdir, file), AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'symlink'
os.symlink is always supposed to exist. Your python is broken.