With sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11, when emerging anything, it returns the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild", line 72, in ? import portage.util, portage.const ImportError: No module named util Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge "anything" 2. 3. Actual Results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/portage/bin/ebuild", line 72, in ? import portage.util, portage.const ImportError: No module named util Expected Results: successful emerge Missing filename ("less --help" for help) Portage 2.1.6.13 (!/usr/local/portage/profiles/vc/amd64, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23.12vc x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.23.12vc-x86_64-AMD_Opteron-tm-_Processor_248-with-glibc2.3.2 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:00:19 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.11.14-r8 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -mtune=k8 -O3 -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math -funit-at-a-time -fpeel-loops -funswitch-loops" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /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/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -mtune=k8 -O3 -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ffast-math -funit-at-a-time -fpeel-loops -funswitch-loops" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="en es en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acl acpi activefilter adns aim alsa amd64 apache2 apm atm audiofile bash-completion berkdb big-tables bzip2 bzlib caps cddb cdr clamav crypt curl dhcp divx4linux dvb dvd dvdr elf erandom esd ethereal expat extensions extraengine f77 faad fam fastcgi flac flash fortran freetds gd gdbm geoip ggi gif ginac gmp gpm gs gtk gtk2 hardened icq idea imagemagick imap imlib informix innodb ipv6 jabber java jce jpeg junit lcms ldap libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors logrotate lua lzw mad maildir mcal memlimit mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mpi mppe-mppc msn mssql mysql ncurses nntp nptl nsplugin objc odbc oggvorbis oscar pam parse-clocks pcap pcre pdflib perl pg-hier pg-intdatetime pic pie plotutils png pnp postgres python qt quotas readline ruby samba sasl slang snmp socks5 softquota sox speex spell sqlite sse ssl svg szip tcltk tetex theora threads tiff truetype unicode wmf xfs xinetd xml xml2 xvid yahoo zimbra zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="access auth auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user auth_digest alias file_cache echo charset_lite cache disk_cache mem_cache ext_filter filter case_filter case_filter_in deflate mime_magic cern_meta expires headers usertrack unique_id proxy proxy_connect proxy_ftp proxy_http info include cgi cgid dav dav_fs vhost_alias speling rewrite log_config logio env setenvif mime status autoindex asis negotiation dir imap actions userdir version" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en es en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vga vesa fbdev apm radeon r128" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
It seems that your portage installation got corrupted somehow. You can probably recover by following these instructions: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml
Worked for me. Thanks so much for your help! I already tried using qpkg on another machine to fix it, but I guess that didn't work correctly. Thanks, again.
