yesterday I did a emerge sync like I normaly do, but when it ended and i did a emerge -up world i started getting these errors: (lots of them over this ones) !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//net-analyzer !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//games-action !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//games-arcade !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//games-fps !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//games-rpg Calculating world dependencies Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2517, in ? if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1097, in xcreate if portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4156, in match mymatch=match_from_list(mydep,self.cp_list(mykey,use_cache=use_cache)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4082, in cp_list mystat=os.stat(self.root+VDB_PATH+"/"+mysplit[0])[ST_MTIME] TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL bytes), not st r and i cant emerge anything. i was on #gentoo, and ppl told me to run fix-db.py, i did that but the same errors persisted, then another one told me to do a emerge regen, so i did, and after it ended i tried again the emerge -up world, and.. the error is still the same. im posting here cause no one really know how to help me and i dont want that my system dies :-| please try to help me Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge anything 2. 3. Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.3 -rc2-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.3-rc2-gentoo i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disable d] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s hare/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/te xmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/mnt/c/gentoo/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo/ ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/dis tributions/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/c/gentoo/build" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apm avi berkdb cdr crypt dvd encode foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif gp hoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quick time readline samba scanner sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff trans code truetype usb wxwindows x x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
my world file was damaged, i already fixed it. this is solved. thanks for everyone at #gentoo-dev
