Hi, When I updated to portage-2.1.6.8 and done 'emerge -DNuav world', I got the following message: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies \ !!! Problem in 'media-video/mplayer' dependencies. !!! 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) None Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 40, in <module> retval = _emerge.emerge_main() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 15189, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 14112, in action_build retval, favorites = mydepgraph.select_files(myfiles) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 5657, in select_files myroot, atom, onlydeps=onlydeps) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 6075, in _select_pkg_highest_available ret = self._select_pkg_highest_available_imp(root, atom, onlydeps=onlydeps) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 6260, in _select_pkg_highest_available_imp pkgsettings.setcpv(pkg) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 2173, in setcpv self.reset(keeping_pkg=1,use_cache=use_cache) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 1968, in reset self.regenerate(use_cache=use_cache) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 2806, in regenerate self.configlist[-1]["USE"]= " ".join(sorted(myflags)) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128) so I thought that I have done something wrong and masked this version as temporary solution (hadn't much time and 2.1.6.7 was working fine). Then 2.1.6.9 version was released, so I installed it and got exact message, did some testing and filed a bug. When I masked media-video/mplayer, got this: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies -Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 40, in <module> (the rest as above...) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 5: ordinal not in range(128) Portage does any other operation than 'emerge -u world' fine, expect 'emerge mplayer'. Also noticed that 'emerge virtualbox-bin' gives the same result as with mplayer (I have mplayer installed but virtualbox-bin not). Also noticed that portage-2.2_rc26 has the same issue, and rc23 works fine. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.6.9 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.28-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r3-i686-AMD_Turion-tm-_64_Mobile_Technology_MK-36-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p10-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -msse3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /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 /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -msse3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.po.opole.pl/ http://gentoo.po.opole.pl/ ftp://ftp.vectranet.pl/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.pw.edu.pl/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8" LC_ALL="pl_PL.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="pl" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/roslin /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa avahi bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr consolekit cups cxx dbus dvd dvdr encode exif fam ffmpeg flac fortran gif glib gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv jpeg jpeg2k libnotify libsamplerate lzo mad midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mudflap nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl pam pcre perl png ppds python qt3support quicktime readline samba schroedinger sdl session sndfile spell sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs wmf x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_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 unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" FOO2ZJS_DEVICES="hp1020" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="via vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
It seems that you have a unicode character inside /etc/portage/package.use settings for mplayer. Please post the output of this command: grep media-video/mplayer /etc/portage/package.use
(In reply to comment #1) > It seems that you have a unicode character inside /etc/portage/package.use > settings for mplayer. Yes, indeed, I have. Now I see it's causing the problem. > Please post the output of this command: > grep media-video/mplayer /etc/portage/package.use > # grep media-video/mplayer /etc/portage/package.use media-video/mplayer -fbcon media-video/mplayer -gtk #jakaś skórka, nie używam jej media-video/mplayer -oss #domyślnie było włączone (?) So now the only proper way of adding comments is to place them above the package atom?
Right, only lines that begin with # are recognized as comments.
Ok, thanks. My bad, sorry for fuss.
Well, it's still a valid bug. We should fix it to simply ignore unicode encode/decode errors in cases like this where they don't really matter. I suspect that you have the sqlite cache module enabled in /etc/portage/modules, since that might trigger the UnicodeDecodeError that you reported. Am I right?
(In reply to comment #5) > Well, it's still a valid bug. We should fix it to simply ignore unicode > encode/decode errors in cases like this where they don't really matter. Ah, ok. Misunderstood. > I suspect that you have the sqlite cache module enabled in > /etc/portage/modules, since that might trigger the UnicodeDecodeError that you > reported. Am I right? Right.
(In reply to comment #6) > > I suspect that you have the sqlite cache module enabled in > > /etc/portage/modules, since that might trigger the UnicodeDecodeError that you > > reported. Am I right? > > Right. > Thanks for the confirmation. In svn r13141 I've reverted the changes in the sqlite module which triggered the UnicodeDecodeError.
This is fixed in 2.1.6.10.
