emerge -fpe world > std.out Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 18, in <module> retval = _emerge.emerge_main() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 13444, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 12687, in action_build retval = mergetask.merge() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 9314, in merge rval = self._merge() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 9523, in _merge self._main_loop() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 9625, in _main_loop self._poll_loop() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 8324, in _poll_loop raise AssertionError("tight loop") AssertionError: tight loop The last few lines of std.out are: !!! dev-java/sun-jce-bin-1.6.0 has fetch restriction turned on. !!! This probably means that this ebuild's files must be downloaded !!! manually. See the comments in the ebuild for more information. * Please download jce_policy-6.zip from: * https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_Developer-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=jce_policy-6-oth-JPR@CDS-CDS_Developer * (JCE Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files 6) * and move it to /usr/portage/distfiles
Created attachment 161523 [details] emerge --info
*** Bug 233189 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 161590 [details, diff] fix to avoid tight loop If this is saved as /tmp/fetch_pretend.patch then it can be applied as follows: patch /usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py /tmp/fetch_pretend.patch
just stumbled upon the same bug. emerge -p works, emerge -f works too, emerge -pf fails. # emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.26-gentoo-blackbit x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.26-gentoo-blackbit-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5420_@_2.50GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:03:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r5 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.62-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /e tc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=18 0 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay /usr/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl alsa amd64 amrnb amrwb bash-completion berkdb bl bzip2 cairo cddb cdio cli cracklib crypt cscope cups dbu s dga directfb dri dts dv dvb dvd dvi enca encode fbcon ffmpeg flac fortran ftp fuse gcj gdbm ggi gif gnome gnutls gpm gs gstreame r gtk guile hal hdri iconv isdnlog java jbig jpeg jpeg2k lapack lcms libcaca live lzo mad md5sum midi mmx mmxext mozdevelop mp2 mp 3 mpeg mudflap multilib musepack nautilus ncurses nemesi networking nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc objc++ objc-gc ogg openal open ct openexr opengl openmp pam pcre perl png pnm pppd python qt4 quicktime radio rar readline reflection rtc session spl sse sse2 ss l ssse3 svg tcpd theora tiff truetype type1 unicode v4l v4l2 vim-syntax vorbis wma wmf x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zl ib zsh-completion" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm80 1 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmi x dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softv ol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default au thz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status uniq ue_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayr ad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="xgi vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYN C_EXTRA_OPTS #
portage 2.2_rc5 fixes the issue for me.
Thanks for reporting.