Bug 345431 – env-update invalid syntax when chrooting from Live Ubuntu into Gentoo environment.

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description agpass3141 2010-11-14 18:24:16 UTC]

I am chrooting into a gentoo environment through a Ubuntu Live Disk.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1&style=printable is the link I'm using to preform this gentoo install. "Code Listing 1.5: Chrooting into the new environment" is where this problem occurs.

Normally env-update should say ">> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache..." but in this case it says:"
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "usr/sbin/env-update", line 27, in ?
     import portage
   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 48
     except ImportError as e:
                         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
2.# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
3.# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
4.# env-update
Actual Results:  
Normally env-update should say ">> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache..." but in this case it says:"
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "usr/sbin/env-update", line 27, in ?
     import portage
   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 48
     except ImportError as e:
                         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Expected Results:  
#env-update
>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2010-11-14 20:38:12 UTC]

try doing:
 env -i chroot /bin/bash -l

[Comment 2 agpass3141 2010-11-15 04:06:41 UTC]

After running the suggested "env -i chroot /bin/bash -l" I got the read-out :
"chroot: cannot change root directory to /bin/bash: Not a directory"

[Comment 3 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2010-11-16 00:42:47 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> After running the suggested "env -i chroot /bin/bash -l" I got the read-out :
> "chroot: cannot change root directory to /bin/bash: Not a directory"

Seems like you either forgot to mount the gentoo partitions or if this is a new install you forgot to unpack the stage3.

[Comment 4 agpass3141 2010-11-16 02:05:06 UTC]

Yeah, I'm not too sure, but I can't check on that now. I downloaded a different version of the mirror and snapshot. When I did that env-update worked without a seconds hesitation.
Now I have to fix the issues with connecting to the internet through chroot. =P

[Comment 5 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2010-11-16 03:07:31 UTC]

Alright, closing as invalid given the last comment.

[Comment 6 agpass3141 2010-11-16 03:09:33 UTC]

Mmm... alright... But that's only because I picked an older version to compile. Which leads me to assume that between the second to latest version and the latest version, something happened that caused this error to occur in the first place. Right?

[Comment 7 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2010-11-16 04:24:52 UTC]

If you can duplicate this issue, feel free to reopen the bug.