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Bug 95763 - portage failure when syncing or trying to emerge anything
Summary: portage failure when syncing or trying to emerge anything
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Eclasses (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2005-06-11 04:22 UTC by sashan
Modified: 2005-06-11 14:20 UTC (History)
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Description sashan 2005-06-11 04:22:22 UTC 
doing an emerge sync results in this error:

>>> Updating Portage cache...  ...done!
 
!!! 'str' object has no attribute 'insert'
!!! 'rm -Rf /usr/portage/profiles; emerge sync' may fix this. If it does
!!! not then please report this to bugs.gentoo.org and, if possible, a dev
!!! on #gentoo (irc.freenode.org)


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge sync




/etc/make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-06-11 04:43:17 UTC 
Which portage version? emerge --info missing and no such problem here with
portage-2.0.51.19.
Comment 2 sashan 2005-06-11 14:20:15 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Which portage version? emerge --info missing and no such problem here with
> portage-2.0.51.19. 

root@gambit darkwing # emerge --info
!!! 'str' object has no attribute 'insert'
!!! 'rm -Rf /usr/portage/profiles; emerge sync' may fix this. If it does
!!! not then please report this to bugs.gentoo.org and, if possible, a dev
!!! on #gentoo (irc.freenode.org)
root@gambit darkwing #

I think I'll just have to upgrade using a livecd.