Early this morning, the run of: egencache --jobs=4 --repo=gentoo --update --update-use-local-desc after emerge --sync did work without any problem. But now: === Sync completed for gentoo Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/egencache", line 1185, in <module> sys.exit(egencache_main(sys.argv[1:])) File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/egencache", line 1102, in egencache_main gen_cache.run() File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/egencache", line 368, in run signum = run_main_scheduler(self._regen) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/util/_async/run_main_scheduler.py", line 26, in run_main_scheduler scheduler.start() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 30, in start self._start() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/util/_async/AsyncScheduler.py", line 76, in _start self._schedule() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/PollScheduler.py", line 127, in _schedule self._schedule_tasks() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/util/_async/AsyncScheduler.py", line 49, in _schedule_tasks task = self._next_task() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/MetadataRegen.py", line 33, in _next_task return next(self._process_iter) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/MetadataRegen.py", line 66, in _iter_metadata_processes raise AssertionError("ebuild not found for '%s%s%s'" % (cpv, _repo_separator, repo.name)) AssertionError: ebuild not found for 'sci-astronomy/idlastro-20161220::gentoo' Sandboxed process killed by signal: Broken pipe Sandboxed process killed by signal: Broken pipe Sandboxed process killed by signal: Broken pipe I think root cause is this commit: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/079e9f3f8e7c40da207b8a8020f9ff5b908d4cae
commit aaaa03b6ea4d595bf1146347f564ff3b2f44ba5d Author: Manuel Rüger <mrueg@gentoo.org> Date: Fri Dec 23 15:28:52 2016 +0100 sci-astronomy/idlastro: Desymlink commit 1faac3ab322638e63f545d92a102f247c26973f0 Author: Manuel Rüger <mrueg@gentoo.org> Date: Fri Dec 23 15:22:24 2016 +0100 sci-libs/idlcoyote: Desymlink