After emerging sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.5 today I found that I could no longer emerge. whereis says: dan@pascal /usr/bin $ whereis emerge emerge: I don't have it. However, I already have it installed on another box... what happened? Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: I can't reproduce it because I no longer have the emerge program. Not sure what I'm going to do about this ...
i know this sounds crazy, but all I did was emerge --snyc - once from an online source, then again from a local rsync repository I was configuring. There was an update to portage, and you know how ominous those warnings are, so as a matter of habit I ran an emerge -av portage, which completed successfully. Afterwords, I tried an emerge -pv world - and no emerge. I assure you this is a run of the mill system too, and I am an experienced Gentooer - since '02, so this wreaks to me of the dreaded ebuild slip-up. Maybe some bad luck with the sync tyming? or an Isolated incident?
I would have asked for your `emerge --info', but never mind. :) Please consult /var/log/emerge.log and tell us what version of sys-apps/portage you upgraded *from*.
You can recover by following these instructions: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml
I will double check but am pretty sure it was 2.1.4.4, the previous amd64 stable.
Yep, from 2.1.4.4. I last updated in February. The system is outdated, but I am still concerned as how this could happen. Any other steps for investigation? Personally, looks like I'm writing it off as a blip.
(In reply to comment #3) > You can recover by following these instructions: > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml > I did that, and checked my work too - but no dice Output at end. Can you provide a suggestion? I could also untar a stage3 (perhaps even selectively) and restore /var files, if necessary... it's about time to rebuild most of the packages anyway. But I'm so curious as to what might have happened... `emerge` : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4049, in ? emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3768, in emerge_main settings, trees, mtimedb = load_emerge_config() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3679, in load_emerge_config trees = portage.create_trees(trees=trees, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6771, in create_trees config_incrementals=portage_const.INCREMENTALS) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 921, in __init__ addProfile(os.path.realpath(self.profile_path)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 908, in addProfile raise portage_exception.ParseError( NameError: global name 'parents_file' is not defined
(In reply to comment #6) > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 908, in addProfile > raise portage_exception.ParseError( > NameError: global name 'parents_file' is not defined That's a bug in portage-2.1.4, but it's only triggered if your profile contains an empty 'parent' file, which isn't normal. Try using `eselect profile` to make sure /etc/make.profile is a symlink pointing to a valid profile. There are some instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml#doc_chap3
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 908, in addProfile > > raise portage_exception.ParseError( > > NameError: global name 'parents_file' is not defined > > That's a bug in portage-2.1.4, but it's only triggered if your profile contains > an empty 'parent' file, which isn't normal. Try using `eselect profile` to make > sure /etc/make.profile is a symlink pointing to a valid profile. There are some > instructions here: > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml#doc_chap3 > Thanks for continued support. Let me share my results: dan@pascal ~ $ eselect profile show Current make.profile symlink: /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0 The parent file in /etc/make.profile is the same on another computer with the same profile.
In order to avoid the bug which triggers the traceback shown in comment #6, you can repeat the "Manually fixing broken portage installations" procedure with a different tarball. I'd suggest portage-2.1.6_rc1.tar.bz2 since that's probably easier than applying the portage-2.1.4.5 patch.
To solve the "NameError: global name 'parents_file' is not defined" situation, proceed with the following steps: profileSymlinkTarget=`readlink /etc/make.profile` rm /etc/make.profile ARCH="x86" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" emerge portage --nodeps ln -s $profileSymlinkTarget /etc/make.profile emerge portage -va
