With default interpreter set to python3.2 and in make.conf: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log qa" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save mail" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage" A few emerges fail to send their elog email, one example is x11-libs/qt-xmlpatterns-4.7.3: >>> Recording x11-libs/qt-xmlpatterns in "world" favorites file... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1906, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 437, in action_build retval = mergetask.merge() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1066, in merge rval = self._merge() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1416, in _merge self._main_loop() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1566, in _main_loop self._poll_loop() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/PollScheduler.py", line 193, in _poll_loop handler(f, event) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/SpawnProcess.py", line 215, in _output_handler self._unregister_if_appropriate(event) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AbstractPollTask.py", line 61, in _unregister_if_appropriate self.wait() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 46, in wait self._wait_hook() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 128, in _wait_hook self._exit_listener_stack.pop()(self) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/EbuildMerge.py", line 56, in _merge_exit self.wait() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 46, in wait self._wait_hook() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 128, in _wait_hook self._exit_listener_stack.pop()(self) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/EbuildBuild.py", line 378, in _install_exit self._unlock_builddir() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/EbuildBuild.py", line 274, in _unlock_builddir portage.elog.elog_process(self.pkg.cpv, self.settings) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/elog/__init__.py", line 167, in elog_process m.process(mysettings, str(key), mod_logentries, mod_fulllog) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/elog/mod_mail.py", line 39, in process portage.mail.send_mail(mysettings, mymessage) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/mail.py", line 170, in send_mail myconn.sendmail(myfrom, myrecipient, message_str) File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/smtplib.py", line 739, in sendmail (code,resp) = self.data(msg) File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/smtplib.py", line 495, in data q = _quote_periods(msg) File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/smtplib.py", line 165, in _quote_periods return re.sub(br'(?m)^\.', '..', bindata) File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/re.py", line 167, in sub return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count) TypeError: sequence item 1: expected bytes, str found Using eselect to set python3.1 before emergeing and the email is sent: QA: other QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile fine but exhibit random runtime failures. ../../include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/tools/qshareddata.h:250: warning: dereferencing pointer \u2018<anonymous>\u2019 does break strict-aliasing rules Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA issues directly to the upstream developers of this software. Homepage: http://qt.nokia.com/
Created attachment 282607 [details] emerge --info
It's a python bug, fixed in python-3.2.1 I guess: http://bugs.python.org/issue12283 I don't see any way to work around it on the python side.
