When I run any form of emerge, I get the following errors emerge info portage: Update type "���������,���" not recognized. portage: Update type "��,�" not recognized. portage: Update type "" not recognized. portage: Update type "\��$=" not recognized. portage: Update type "" not recognized. portage: Update type "0��$=" not recognized. portage: Update type "" not recognized. portage: Update type "(��$=" not recognized. portage: Update type "" not recognized. portage: Update type "�#" not recognized. portage: Update type "12" not recognized. portage: Update type "redhat-artwork-0.63-r1.ebuild," not recognized. portage: Update type "redhat-artwork-0.73.ebuild," not recognized. portage: Update type "gcc2.95" not recognized. portage: Update type "<jyouells@adelphia.net>." not recognized. portage: Update type "*redhat-artwork-0.73" not recognized. portage: Update type "10" not recognized. portage: Update type "version" not recognized. portage: Update type "*redhat-artwork-0.63-r1" not recognized. portage: Update type "25" not recognized. portage: Update type "redhat-artwork-0.63-r1.ebuild," not recognized. portage: Update type "files/redhat-artwork-0.63-cursors.patch:" not recognized. portage: Update type "patched" not recognized. portage: Update type "fixes" not recognized. portage: Update type "*redhat-artwork-0.65" not recognized. portage: Update type "22" not recognized. portage: Update type "-" not recognized. portage: Update type "-" not recognized. portage: Update type "21" not recognized. portage: Update type "New" not recognized. portage: Update type "*redhat-artwork-0.63" not recognized. portage: Update type "02" not recognized. portage: Update type "New" not recognized. portage: Update type "*redhat-artwork-0.58" not recognized. portage: Update type "13" not recognized. portage: Update type "New" not recognized. portage: Update type "*redhat-artwork-0.53" not recognized. portage: Update type "01" not recognized. portage: Update type "New" not recognized. portage: Update type "22" not recognized. portage: Update type "Oops," not recognized. portage: Update type "*redhat-artwork-0.49-r1" not recognized. portage: Update type "14" not recognized. portage: Update type "Version" not recognized. portage: Update type "*redhat-artwork-0.49" not recognized. portage: Update type "05" not recognized. portage: Update type "Version" not recognized. portage: Update type "*redhat-artwork-0.48" not recognized. portage: Update type "08" not recognized. portage: Update type "redhat-artwork-0.48.ebuild," not recognized. portage: Update type "removed." not recognized. portage: Update type "21" not recognized. portage: Update type "Version" not recognized. portage: Update type "*redhat-artwork-0.47" not recognized. portage: Update type "16" not recognized. portage: Update type "Version" not recognized. portage: Update type "*redhat-artwo���" not recognized. portage: Update type "MD5" not recognized. portage: Update type "MD5" not recognized. portage: Update type "MD5" not recognized. portage: Update type "MD5" not recognized. portage: Update type "MD5" not recognized. portage: Update type "MD5" not recognized. portage: Update type "MD5" not recognized. portage: Update type "MD5" not recognized. portage: Update type "MD5" not recognized. portage: Update type "MD5" not recognized. portage: Update type "MD5" not recognized. portage: Update type "MD5" not recognized. portage: Update type "���=�>k�>=�6h��N���?zV�����sxvp��q�<�+����y��F���XI" not recognized. portage: Update type "y�?\H����q��h" not recognized. Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /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="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg kde libg++ mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline bonobo svga tcltk java guile postgres sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis qt opengl mozilla X gtk gnome -alsa" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" If you run emerge -s bash (for example) I'll get the errors above. I'll make rsync , but always I get the error Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge info 2. 3.
FIX. The solution was to make the /usr/portage directory again with emerge rsync. The steps involved was: 1) rm -rf /usr/portage 2) emerge rsync For any reason a lot of ebuilds was corrupted, presenting a lot of stange characters inside it.
please re-open only if you can reproduce the bug thanks ! :)