This happens: tpwch@laptop tpwch $ emerge -S something Searching... -Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1995, in ? searchinstance.execute(mysearch) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 455, in execute full_package = portage.portdb.xmatch("bestmatch-visible",package) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4065, in xmatch myval=best(self.xmatch("match-visible",None,mydep,mykey)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4076, in xmatch myval=self.match2(mydep,mykey,self.xmatch("list-visible",None,mydep,mykey)) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4062, in xmatch myval=self.gvisible(self.visible(self.cp_list(mykey))) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4145, in gvisible myaux=db["/"]["porttree"].dbapi.aux_get(mycpv, ["KEYWORDS"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3822, in aux_get writemsg(str(red("\naux_get():")+" (0) Error in "+mycpv+" ebuild. ("+str(ret)+")\n" NameError: global name 'ret' is not defined Here's my info: tpwch@laptop fonts $ emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.0-test11-love1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test11-love1 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bidi bonobo cjk crypt cscope cups curl dga directfb dvd encode esd ethereal evo fam fastcgi fbcon firebird flash foomaticdb freetds freewnn gb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imap imlib informix innodb ipv6 java jpeg kde kerberos krb4 lcms ldap leim libg++ libgda libwww lirc mad memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpi mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl ploutils png python qt quicktime radeon readline ruby samba sasl sdl slang slp snmp socks5 spell sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode usb videos wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_radeon"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34666 ***