i've trought lots of udates latelly, emerge globally works but i do not since when, emerge --info gives backtrace : # emerge -pv portage ; emerge --info These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.13 USE="-build -doc -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 40, in <module> retval = _emerge.emerge_main() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 15787, in emerge_main return action_info(settings, trees, myopts, valid_atoms) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", line 13575, in action_info print "System uname: "+platform.platform(aliased=1) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/platform.py", line 1520, in platform distname,distversion,distid = dist('') File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/platform.py", line 361, in dist full_distribution_name=0) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/platform.py", line 333, in linux_distribution _distname, _version, _id = _parse_release_file(firstline) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/platform.py", line 269, in _parse_release_file return '', version, id UnboundLocalError: local variable 'version' referenced before assignment Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --info Actual Results: Traceback with UnboundLocalError: local variable 'version' referenced before assignment something may be wrong with the uname -a ? # uname -a Linux xpc 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 #3 SMP Fri Jan 22 15:21:17 CET 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
probably was a bug python, after digging in /usr/lib64/python2.6/platform.py, i have done that : "cp /etc/gentoo-release /etc/debian_version" then emerge --info was working after "rm /etc/debian_version", emerge --info is still working... complete mystery for me. sorry for disturbing bugs.gentoo.org Regards.
It's a valid bug still present in dev-lang/python-2.7_pre20100124. # python2.7 -c 'import platform; platform._parse_release_file("")' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/platform.py", line 285, in _parse_release_file return '', version, id UnboundLocalError: local variable 'version' referenced before assignment
Fixed in 2.6.5 and 3.1.2.
