When I run 'emerge -up world', as root or not, it starts calculating depencencies, but always fails with a traceback and the error "AttributeError: vartree instance has no attribute 'invalidentry'". Although it will spit the same error for virtually anything. Also, when I actually merge a package successfully, when portage enters the final stages and begins auto-cleaning packages, it spits the error "!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd". These errors hadn't been happening before I did an rsync and update world last month, and actually, the invalidentry error didn't start until about two weeks ago. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in as any user, root included. 2. Type "emerge -up world" and the bash prompt, without quotes, of course. Actual Results: abwalters@abwalters portage $ sudo emerge -up world Password: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-1.61 [1.60] [ebuild U ] net-www/opera-7.23 [7.21] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.4 [1.3.3-r1] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-3.2.3-r3 [3.2.3-r2] [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r3 [2.3.2-r1] [ebuild U ] media-libs/alsa-lib-0.9.8 [0.9.2] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2133, in ? mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1103, in display elif (not "--emptytree" in myopts) and portage.db[x[1]]["vartree"]. exists_specific_cat(x[2]): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3469, in exists_specific_cat self.invalidentry(self.root+"var/db/pkg/"+a[0]+"/"+x) AttributeError: vartree instance has no attribute 'invalidentry' --------------------------------------------------------------- below is the end of 'emerge funny-manpages' to show the invalid db entry error message. the rest of the emerge log is rather uninteresting and goes exactly as it should. --------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ] >>> games-misc/funny-manpages-1.3_rc4 merged. >>> clean: No packages selected for removal. >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ] >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. Expected Results: An output of all packages that have updates available. ortage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.6.0-test11) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=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/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linu x/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apm foomaticdb kde gnome libg++ mad pdflib gdbm berkdb arts guile perl python esd dvd fbdev fbcon directfb alsa dga oss jpeg sdl X 3dnow opengl gif enc ode aalib acpi apache2 avi canna cdr cjk crypt cups flash frewnn ggi gpm gtk gtk 2 imap imlib java jikes lcms ldap libwww maildir mbox mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mpinas ncurses nls oggvorbis pam pdflibperl png pnppython qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner slang slp snmp socks5 spell sse ssl svga tcpd tcltk tiff true type usb Xaw3d xface xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv zlib joystick video_cards_radeon"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31901 ***
