I recently installed layman, as per the instructions at [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Layman#Installation_of_version_.28.3C.3D2.0.0.29] Layman -a elementary says: * Adding overlay,... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/layman", line 45, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/layman/cli.py", line 184, in __call__ result += getattr(self, action[1])() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/layman/cli.py", line 233, in Add result = self.api.add_repos(selection, update_news=True) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/layman/api.py", line 138, in add_repos if self.is_installed(ovl): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/layman/api.py", line 82, in is_installed return ovl in self.get_installed() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/layman/api.py", line 480, in get_installed self._installed_ids = self._get_installed_db(dbreload).list_ids() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/layman/api.py", line 487, in _get_installed_db self._installed_db = DB(self.config) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/layman/db.py", line 68, in __init__ ignore=ignore, File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/layman/dbbase.py", line 101, in __init__ self.read_file(path) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/layman/dbbase.py", line 133, in read_file self.read(document, origin=path) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/layman/dbbase.py", line 158, in read document = ET.fromstring(text) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1301, in XML return parser.close() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1654, in close self._raiseerror(v) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror raise err xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: no element found: line 1, column 0 emerge --info: Portage 2.2.26 (python 3.4.3-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.9.3, glibc-2.21-r2, 4.1.12-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.1.12-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_A4-3305M_APU_with_Radeon-tm-_HD_Graphics-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 3508224 total, 832888 free KiB Swap: 5242876 total, 5242876 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 00:45:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p42-r1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1 app-shells/bash: 4.3_p42-r1::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.20.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.10-r1::gentoo, 3.4.3-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.3.1-r1::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.19.1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.10-r1::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.13.4::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.9.3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.21-r2::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 x-portage location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo priority: 0 local-crossdev location: /usr/local/portage-crossdev masters: gentoo priority: 10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.utf8" 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authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
2.0.0 is pretty old at this point. Any chance you can see if it works with 2.3? Might be that the master lists are using a newer format that breaks compat with the older version.
This error looks like it is failing to load the installed overlays db it keeps. Is this the first overlay to be installed? or did you downgrade layman, with an existing installed db? I'll have to do some conversion from a newer format and version to be able to test this out more. If this is a new install and no installed overlays, you will likely have to manually delete the elementary repo before you re-try.
Created attachment 430776 [details] `emerge layman` output
Created attachment 430778 [details] `layman -a elementary` output
No overlays installed successfully thus far, so yes, this is the first.
`layman-updater -R` ouput: Creating layman's repos.conf file Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/dbbase.py", line 157, in read document = ET.fromstring(text) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1326, in XML return parser.close() xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: no element found: line 1, column 0 During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.4/layman-updater", line 30, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/updater.py", line 90, in __call__ elif not self.check_is_new(self.args.rebuild): File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/updater.py", line 102, in check_is_new getattr(self, 'create_%(conf)s' % {'conf': conf})() File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/updater.py", line 187, in create_repos_conf for ovl in layman_inst.get_installed(): File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/api.py", line 578, in get_installed self._installed_ids = self._get_installed_db(dbreload).list_ids() File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/api.py", line 585, in _get_installed_db self._installed_db = DB(self.config) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/db.py", line 63, in __init__ allow_missing=True, File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/dbbase.py", line 111, in __init__ self.read_file(path) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/dbbase.py", line 143, in read_file self.read(document, origin=path) File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/layman/dbbase.py", line 158, in read except xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError as error: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'parsers'
Are you still experiencing this issue?