In portage-2.1.3_rc6, I did: emerge -avDuNf world and this error message came up before the dependency graph: !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been !!! pulled into the dependency graph: ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.19.2-r2', 'merge') pulled in by ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/mplayer-1.0.20070622-r1', 'merge') ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.22', 'merge') pulled in by ('ebuild', '/', 'net-misc/openssh-4.6_p1-r2', 'merge') ('installed', '/', 'media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r2', 'nomerge') ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/libgii-1.0.2', 'merge') ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1', 'merge') In portage-2.1.3_rc7, with the same command, python crashed with: Calculating world dependencies \Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6047, in ? retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6041, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5335, in action_build if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2521, in xcreate if not self.select_dep( File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1944, in select_dep myuse=selected_pkg[-1], rev_dep=rev_deps, arg=arg): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1445, in create parent_arg=arg): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1937, in select_dep rev_dep=rev_deps, arg=arg): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1445, in create parent_arg=arg): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1760, in select_dep self.pkgsettings[p_root].setinst(p_key, p_db) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1815, in setinst provides = mydbapi.aux_get(mycpv, ["PROVIDE"])[0] File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5078, in aux_get raise KeyError(mycpv) KeyError: 'sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.19.2-r2' From the dep tree (from rc6's emerge) for the relevant packages: [ebuild U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0.20070622-r1 [1.0.20070321] USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib alsa amrnb%* amrwb%* arts bidi bl cd db cdparanoia dga directfb doc dts dv dvb dvd dvdnav enca encode esd fbcon ftp ggi gif gtk iconv ipv6 ivtv* jack joystick jpeg libcaca lirc live lzo mad md5sum* mmx mmxext mp2 mp3 musepack nas openal opengl oss png pnm quicktime radio* rar real rtc* samba sdl speex srt sse sse2 tga theora tivo* truetype unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis x264 xanim xinerama xv xvid xvmc zoran* (-altivec) -bindist -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -livecd -ssse3% (-svga) (-vidix) (-win32codecs) (-amr%*) (-dvdread%*)" VIDEO_CARDS="-mga -s3virge -tdfx -vesa" 0 kB [ebuild U ] net-misc/openssh-4.6_p1-r2 [4.5_p1-r2] USE="X chroot hpn kerberos ldap libedit pam skey smartcard tcpd -X509 (-selinux) -st atic" 0 kB [nomerge ] media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.18-r2 USE="gphoto2 ipv6 usb v4l" [ebuild U ] media-libs/libgii-1.0.2 [0.9.0] USE="X" 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1 [0.5.7.1-r3] USE="acpi crypt doc -debug -dell% -disk-partition% -pcmcia (-selinux) (-dmi%)" 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.22 [2.6.21] 0 kB First line of emerge --info: Portage 2.1.3_rc7 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64) The ivtv flag on media-video/mplayer was what was trying to pull in linux-headers-2.6.19.2-r2, so I disabled it and portage 2.1.3_rc7 worked fine.
Created attachment 124449 [details, diff] fix KeyError triggered by slot collision This is fixed in svn r7215.
This has been released in 2.1.3_rc8.
