When running eupdatedb it fails with the following error after a while: * indexing: 4297 ebuilds to goTraceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/eupdatedb", line 130, in ? pkgv = portage.portdb.xmatch("bestmatch-visible", pkg) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4065, in xmatch myval=best(self.xmatch("match-visible",None,mydep,mykey)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4076, in xmatch myval=self.match2(mydep,mykey,self.xmatch("list-visible",None,mydep,mykey)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4062, in xmatch myval=self.gvisible(self.visible(self.cp_list(mykey))) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4145, in gvisible myaux=db["/"]["porttree"].dbapi.aux_get(mycpv, ["KEYWORDS"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3759, in aux_get myebuild,in_overlay=self.findname2(mycpv) ValueError: need more than 0 values to unpack Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-ppc-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.22-ppc-dev) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-ppc-dev ppc 745/755 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 distcc 2.12 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=750 -O3 -pipe -fsigned-char -mpowerpc-gfxopt" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/lib/jboss /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=750 -O3 -pipe -fsigned-char -mpowerpc-gfxopt" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg ccache cvs distcc sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://212.219.247.10/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.11/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.linux.no/pub/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.13/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3ds X Xaw3d aalib acl alsa apache2 arts berkdb bindist bonobo cdr composite crypt cscope cups curl dga directfb doc dv dvd encode esd expat faad fbcon fbdev ffmpeg flash fluidsynth foomaticdb freetds gd gd-external gdbm gif glut gnome gnome-libs gnomedb gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib imlib2 java javascript jikes joystick jpeg junit ladcca lcms libdsk libg libg++ libwww mad matroska mcal md5sum mikmod mitshm mng mono motif mozaccess mozcalendar mozilla mozinterfaceinfo mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mpeg4 mpi mysql ncurses nls nptl objc odbc offensive oggvorbis openal opengl openssh oss pam pdflib perl pg-hier pg-vacuumdelay php pic plotutils png postgres ppc python qt quicktime radeon readline ruby samba sdk sdl slang socks5 sox speex spell sqlite ssl stencil-buffer t1lib tcltk tcpd tetex tiff transcode truetype type1 usb wmf wxwin wxwindows xfs xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zeo zlib"
The problem was solved with the help of David Peter. It was caused by an erraneous ebuild in the local portdir.
