Bug 64279 – Portage prints debugging info during every initialization

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Gabriel Devenyi 2004-09-16 07:42:29 UTC]

Whenever I run emerge I get some kind of odd error, although emerge seems to work fine. I can't locate where its coming from.

staticwave ace # emerge -p kdebase
mylines: ['\x00']
list index out of range
mylines: ['\x00']
list index out of range

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] kde-base/kdebase-3.3.0

--INFO--
staticwave ace # emerge info
mylines: ['\x00']
list index out of range
mylines: ['\x00']
list index out of range
Portage 2.0.51_rc1 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.
8-ck7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-ck7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
distcc 2.17 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3
/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /us
r/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /
usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/sha
re/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-tbird -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/unix/Linux/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.risq.qc.ca/"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow S3TC X acpi alsa apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr codecs crypt cups curl dga divx4linux dv dvd dvdread encode escreen faac faad fam fbcon fbdev flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gphoto2 gtk gtk2 idea imagemagick imlib java jikes jit jpeg kde lesstif libg++ libwww live lzo lzw-tiff mad mldonkeypango mmap mmx mng motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozp3p mpeg ncurses network nls no_wxgtk1 nogcj noreiserfs nowin nptl oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png ppds psyco python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl serial slang spell ssl svg tcpd tetex tgatheora threads tiff truetype unicode usb uudeview v4l v4l2 x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 Gabriel Devenyi 2004-09-16 15:50:21 UTC]

This seems to be breaking kde-related builds.
kdenetwork and kaffeine report...



configure: creating ./config.status
Uhh. Malformed pattern in ./confstatC3NDC6/subs.sed (s,@libdir@,${exec_prefix}/mylines: ['\x00']) at admin/config.pl line 106.
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands

Good - your configure finished. Start make now

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

!!! ERROR: media-video/kaffeine-0.4.3b failed.
!!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 135, Exitcode 2
!!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

[Comment 2 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2004-09-16 17:03:47 UTC]

Not sure what could cause this other than manual modification...

[Comment 3 Gabriel Devenyi 2004-09-16 17:36:15 UTC]

Pretty sure I didn't manually modify anything, I don't even know where this is coming from...

[Comment 4 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2004-09-21 17:15:32 UTC]

There are nulls in a file somewhere.

Try running 'file' on all files in

/var/cache/edb/
/etc/portage

If they aren't plain ascii, then you've found the problem.

[Comment 5 Gabriel Devenyi 2004-09-21 21:52:02 UTC]

mv'd /var/cache/edb to edb.old and rm -rf /etc/portage results in the same "errors"

[Comment 6 Gabriel Devenyi 2004-09-23 19:45:40 UTC]

There are no nulls anywhere, whats the next step?

[Comment 7 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2004-09-23 21:03:10 UTC]

Informational message added.

[Comment 8 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2004-10-22 08:48:08 UTC]

Bug has been fixed and released in stable portages on or before 2.0.51-r2