I had previously installed Gentoo from pentium3 optimized livecd set and copied all packages from two cd to /usr/portage/packages/All I ran 'emerge -K -pv kde' to check use flags just for couriosity :) error was: bash-2.05b# emerge -K -pv kde These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [binary N ] sys-apps/eject-2.0.12-r1 !!! aux_get(): ebuild for 'kde-base/kdebase-3.1.3' does not exist at: !!! /usr/portage/kde-base/kdebase/kdebase-3.1.3.ebuild Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2133, in ? mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1136, in display for ebuild_iuse in string.split(portage.portdb.aux_get(x[2],["IUSE"])[0], " "): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3760, in aux_get raise KeyError KeyError Note that 'emerge -K -p kde' works OK! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Cant verify if this is reproducable by these steps but this is about what I did 1. Install Gentoo 1.4 and make it "work". boot. 2. Copy packages/All from two p3 optimized livecds (Gentoo 1.4) to /usr/portage/ 3. type: 'emerge -K -pv kde' Actual Results: bash-2.05b# emerge -K -pv kde These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [binary N ] sys-apps/eject-2.0.12-r1 !!! aux_get(): ebuild for 'kde-base/kdebase-3.1.3' does not exist at: !!! /usr/portage/kde-base/kdebase/kdebase-3.1.3.ebuild Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2133, in ? mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1136, in display for ebuild_iuse in string.split(portage.portdb.aux_get(x[2],["IUSE"])[0], " "): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3760, in aux_get raise KeyError KeyError Expected Results: to show packages with USE flags bash-2.05b# emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-ck2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-ck2 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ rsync://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt gif jpeg mikmod mpeg nls pdflib png quicktime truetype xml2 xmms zlib readline arts java X sdl pam ssl python esd imlib gtk qt opengl mozilla cdr dga fam gtk2 nvidia nviz -cups -encode -foomaticdb -kde -gnome -libg++ -libwww -mad -motif -ncurses -spell -xv -gdbm -berkdb -slang -svga -tcltk -gpm -tcpd -perl -oggvorbis"
Partial fix/debug added to cvs.
supposed to be fixed in 2.0.50 which is stable now. If this bug is not fixed please reopen.