I let an old forgotten server get a bit behind the curve. It was originally installed with 1.4, and has had a couple of tree updates. Today I ran 'emerge sync' on it, and it connected to the portage server and updated its tree. It told me there was a newer version of portage (duh), so I tried 'emerge -pv portage' to see what other newness it wanted to install. I was greeted with this error... ::root@sonic - etc::> emerge portage !!! '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' on a 1.4 box 2. 'emerge <anything>' Actual Results: See the notes... Expected Results: Ran the portage updates Now this sounded a lot like a python error, so I also ran 'python -v /usr/bin/emerge portage' to see some more output. Here it is... # installing zipimport hook import zipimport # builtin # installed zipimport hook # /usr/lib/python2.3/site.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/site.py import site # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/site.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/os.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/os.py import os # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/os.pyc import posix # builtin # /usr/lib/python2.3/posixpath.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/posixpath.py import posixpath # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/posixpath.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/stat.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/stat.py import stat # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/stat.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/UserDict.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/UserDict.py import UserDict # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/UserDict.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/copy_reg.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/copy_reg.py import copy_reg # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/copy_reg.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/types.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/types.py import types # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/types.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/warnings.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/warnings.py import warnings # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/warnings.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/linecache.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/linecache.py import linecache # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/linecache.pyc import encodings # directory /usr/lib/python2.3/encodings # /usr/lib/python2.3/encodings/__init__.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/encodings/__init__.py import encodings # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/encodings/__init__.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/codecs.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/codecs.py import codecs # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/codecs.pyc import _codecs # builtin # /usr/lib/python2.3/encodings/aliases.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/encodings/aliases.py import encodings.aliases # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/encodings/aliases.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/encodings/ascii.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/encodings/ascii.py import encodings.ascii # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/encodings/ascii.pyc Python 2.3.3 (#1, Feb 9 2004, 23:07:28) [GCC 3.3.2 20031218 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.2-r5, propolice-3.3-7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. # /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.pyc matches /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.py import emergehelp # precompiled from /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.pyc # /usr/lib/portage/pym/output.pyc matches /usr/lib/portage/pym/output.py import output # precompiled from /usr/lib/portage/pym/output.pyc # /usr/lib/portage/pym/xpak.pyc matches /usr/lib/portage/pym/xpak.py import xpak # precompiled from /usr/lib/portage/pym/xpak.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/string.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/string.py import string # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/string.pyc import strop # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/strop.so # /usr/lib/python2.3/re.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/re.py import re # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/re.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/sre.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/sre.py import sre # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/sre.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/sre_compile.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/sre_compile.py import sre_compile # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/sre_compile.pyc import _sre # builtin # /usr/lib/python2.3/sre_constants.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/sre_constants.py import sre_constants # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/sre_constants.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/sre_parse.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/sre_parse.py import sre_parse # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/sre_parse.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/commands.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/commands.py import commands # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/commands.pyc import time # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/time.so # /usr/lib/python2.3/shutil.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/shutil.py import shutil # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/shutil.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/traceback.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/traceback.py import traceback # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/traceback.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/atexit.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/atexit.py import atexit # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/atexit.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/socket.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/socket.py import socket # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/socket.pyc import _socket # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/_socket.so import _ssl # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/_ssl.so import errno # builtin # /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.pyc matches /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py import portage # precompiled from /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/shlex.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/shlex.py import shlex # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/shlex.pyc import cStringIO # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/cStringIO.so import fcntl # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/fcntl.so import cPickle # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/cPickle.so import grp # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/grp.so import pwd # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/pwd.so # /usr/lib/portage/pym/cvstree.pyc matches /usr/lib/portage/pym/cvstree.py import cvstree # precompiled from /usr/lib/portage/pym/cvstree.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/copy.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/copy.py import copy # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/copy.pyc # /usr/lib/portage/pym/getbinpkg.pyc matches /usr/lib/portage/pym/getbinpkg.py import getbinpkg # precompiled from /usr/lib/portage/pym/getbinpkg.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/htmllib.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/htmllib.py import htmllib # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/htmllib.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/sgmllib.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/sgmllib.py import sgmllib # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/sgmllib.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/markupbase.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/markupbase.py import markupbase # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/markupbase.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/formatter.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/formatter.py import formatter # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/formatter.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/htmlentitydefs.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/htmlentitydefs.py import htmlentitydefs # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/htmlentitydefs.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/HTMLParser.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/HTMLParser.py import HTMLParser # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/HTMLParser.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/tempfile.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/tempfile.py import tempfile # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/tempfile.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/random.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/random.py import random # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/random.pyc import math # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/math.so import _random # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/_random.so import thread # builtin # /usr/lib/python2.3/base64.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/base64.py import base64 # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/base64.pyc import binascii # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/binascii.so # /usr/lib/python2.3/ftplib.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/ftplib.py import ftplib # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/ftplib.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/httplib.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/httplib.py import httplib # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/httplib.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/mimetools.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/mimetools.py import mimetools # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/mimetools.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/rfc822.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/rfc822.py import rfc822 # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/rfc822.pyc # /usr/lib/python2.3/urlparse.pyc matches /usr/lib/python2.3/urlparse.py import urlparse # precompiled from /usr/lib/python2.3/urlparse.pyc import select # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/select.so import fchksum # dynamically loaded from /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/fchksum.so !!! '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) # clear __builtin__._ # clear sys.path # clear sys.argv # clear sys.ps1 # clear sys.ps2 # clear sys.exitfunc # clear sys.exc_type # clear sys.exc_value # clear sys.exc_traceback # clear sys.last_type # clear sys.last_value # clear sys.last_traceback # clear sys.path_hooks # clear sys.path_importer_cache # clear sys.meta_path # restore sys.stdin # restore sys.stdout # restore sys.stderr # cleanup __main__ # cleanup[1] cStringIO # cleanup[1] site # cleanup[1] encodings # cleanup[1] select # cleanup[1] portage # cleanup[1] getbinpkg # cleanup[1] grp # cleanup[1] sre_constants # cleanup[1] _codecs # cleanup[1] emergehelp # cleanup[1] formatter # cleanup[1] htmlentitydefs # cleanup[1] math # cleanup[1] shlex # cleanup[1] ftplib # cleanup[1] zipimport # cleanup[1] warnings # cleanup[1] encodings.ascii # cleanup[1] cPickle # cleanup[1] httplib # cleanup[1] pwd # cleanup[1] xpak # cleanup[1] urlparse # cleanup[1] codecs # cleanup[1] copy # cleanup[1] strop # cleanup[1] commands # cleanup[1] socket # cleanup[1] sre # cleanup[1] signal # cleanup[1] traceback # cleanup[1] sgmllib # cleanup[1] random # cleanup[1] linecache # cleanup[1] htmllib # cleanup[1] posix # cleanup[1] encodings.aliases # cleanup[1] output # cleanup[1] sre_parse # cleanup[1] mimetools # cleanup[1] base64 # cleanup[1] sre_compile # cleanup[1] rfc822 # cleanup[1] _sre # cleanup[1] fchksum # cleanup[1] atexit # cleanup[1] _ssl # cleanup[1] HTMLParser # cleanup[1] cvstree # cleanup[1] shutil # cleanup[1] markupbase # cleanup[1] tempfile # cleanup[1] errno # cleanup[1] _socket # cleanup[1] binascii # cleanup[1] re # cleanup[1] fcntl # cleanup[1] string # cleanup[1] types # cleanup[1] _random # cleanup[1] thread # cleanup[1] time # cleanup[1] exceptions # cleanup[2] copy_reg # cleanup[2] posixpath # cleanup[2] os.path # cleanup[2] stat # cleanup[2] UserDict # cleanup[2] os # cleanup sys # cleanup __builtin__ # cleanup ints: 34 unfreed ints in 19 out of 113 blocks # cleanup floats: 28 unfreed floats in 1 out of 1 block Also, I can't even run an emerge info... :root@sonic - etc::> 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)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63400 ***
