updated python to 2.3.4 via "emerge python", then ran that python-update script. Now, net-p2p/nicotine-1.0.8_rc1 fails on startup. Already tried re-emerging pygtk and nicotine, but to no avail. Error message is as follows: Shared files database seems to be corrupted, rescan your shares Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "DbfilenameShelf instance has no attribute 'writeback'" in ignored Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/nicotine", line 146, in ? app = frame.MainApp(config) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pynicotine/gtkgui/frame.py", line 933, in __init__ self.frame = testwin(config) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pynicotine/gtkgui/frame.py", line 166, in __init__ self.np = NetworkEventProcessor(self, self.callback, self.logMessage, self.SetStatusText, config) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pynicotine/pynicotine.py", line 65, in __init__ self.config.readConfig() File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pynicotine/config.py", line 149, in readConfig sharedfiles = shelve.open(self.filename+".files.db",flag='n') File "/usr/lib/python2.3/shelve.py", line 231, in open return DbfilenameShelf(filename, flag, protocol, writeback, binary) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/shelve.py", line 212, in __init__ Shelf.__init__(self, anydbm.open(filename, flag), protocol, writeback, binary) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/anydbm.py", line 83, in open return mod.open(file, flag, mode) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/dbhash.py", line 16, in open return bsddb.hashopen(file, flag, mode) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/bsddb/__init__.py", line 192, in hashopen d.open(file, db.DB_HASH, flags, mode) bsddb._db.DBInvalidArgError: (22, 'Invalid argument -- architecture lacks fast mutexes: applications cannot be threaded') Exception exceptions.AttributeError: "DbfilenameShelf instance has no attribute 'writeback'" in ignored in the first line, it says I should rescan my shares. of course I can't, since it won't start. emerge info follows: Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-sparc64-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0, 2.6.7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7 sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ccache version 2.2 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc ~sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://gentoo.inode.at/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib avi berkdb cdr client crypt cups dvd encode esd fbcon fftw foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg nas ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis pam pdflib perl plotutils png postgres python qt readline sdl server slang sparc spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"
installed a new version of db (4.1.25_p1-r4), that alone wasn't enough. re-emerged nicotine, still the same error. updated gdbm to 1.8.3, tried again, same error. then I re-emerged the newest available python and _now_ it works. whoa. uh. though I guess this was mis-assigned to sparc anyway, right? shouldn't this have gone to the ebuild maintainer?
