I can emerge individual pkgs or emerge -up or -u system but emerge -u or -up world fails. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -up world 2. 3. Actual Results: nexus bluzman # emerge -up world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1902, in ? if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 855, in xcreate if portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3049, in match mydep=dep_expand(origdep,self) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2508, in dep_expand return prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb)+postfix File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2441, in cpv_expand if (not mydb.cp_list(mykey)) and virts and virts.has_key(mykey): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3005, in cp_list mystat=os.stat(self.root+"var/db/pkg/"+mysplit[0])[ST_MTIME] TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL bytes), not str nexus bluzman # emerge -u world Calculating world dependencies Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1902, in ? if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 855, in xcreate if portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3049, in match mydep=dep_expand(origdep,self) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2508, in dep_expand return prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb)+postfix File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2441, in cpv_expand if (not mydb.cp_list(mykey)) and virts and virts.has_key(mykey): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3005, in cp_list mystat=os.stat(self.root+"var/db/pkg/"+mysplit[0])[ST_MTIME] TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL bytes), not str Expected Results: It should have shown me the list of files it would update then in the second instance it should have preformed the update. nexus bluzman # emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gaming-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share /config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt encode gif jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod mmx mp eg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdb m berkdb readline arts bonobo svga tcltk java guile gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python imlib qt motif opengl mozilla cdr X lirc mysql dvd sdl smpg cups gtk gnome alsa slang esd moznoirc moznocompose oggvorbis" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointe r -funroll-loops -falign-functions=4 -maccumulate-outgoing-args -ffast-math -fpr efetch-loop-arrays" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-poin ter -funroll-loops -falign-functions=4 -maccumulate-outgoing-args -ffast-math -f prefetch-loop-arrays" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" BTW I tried rolling back the Cflags too. I changed them to: CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" and I get the exact same results.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22701 ***
