During an emerge on gnome2.4 I get this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2149, in ? mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1356, in merge retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,edebug) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1821, in doebuild return merge(settings["CATEGORY"],settings["PF"],settings["D"],settings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,myebuild=settings["EBUILD"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1940, in merge return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 5018, in merge return self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4708, in treewalk unlockdir(mytmpdir_lock) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 5527, in unlockdir return unlockfile(mylock) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 5568, in unlockfile lockfilename,myfd,unlinkfile = mytuple TypeError: unpack non-sequence After receiving this error when I try to emerge anything else I get this error: Calculating dependencies \!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-1.0.9.portage_lockfile !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-1.0.9.portage_lockfile !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-1.0.9.portage_lockfile /!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/app-dicts/aspell-en-0.51.0.portage_lockfile \!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/app-dicts/aspell-en-0.51.0.portage_lockfile !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-1.0.9.portage_lockfile / Not sure how to clean this up. Thank you. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge gnome2.4 Actual Results: gnome2 emerge failed with error code emerging anything else now has warning messages before they are merged Expected Results: Installed gnome2.4 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.2 !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/app-dicts/aspell-en-0.51.0.portage_lockfile !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-1.0.9.portage_lockfile Portage 2.0.49-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.2.5-r2,2.3.1-r3, 2.4.22-ac4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-ac4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts bonobo svga java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt opengl mozilla gphoto2 cdr scanner"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30613 ***