Found in the forums: # emerge portage Calculating dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1732, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 294, in action_build settings, trees, myopts, myparams, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 5788, in backtrack_depgraph myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 5807, in _backtrack_depgraph success, favorites = mydepgraph.select_files(myfiles) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 1921, in select_files return self._resolve(myfavorites) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 2037, in _resolve self.altlist() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 4083, in altlist self._resolve_conflicts() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 4165, in _resolve_conflicts if not self._validate_blockers(): File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 3862, in _validate_blockers show_invalid_depstring_notice(pkg, depstr, atoms) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/show_invalid_depstring_notice.py", line 34, in show_invalid_depstring_notice writemsg_level(msg1 + msg2, level=logging.ERROR, noiselevel=-1) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 74: ordinal not in range(128)
This should fix it: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=28ce242ff1bf55605227b1877aaba0b76388714c
This is fixed in 2.1.10.20 and 2.2.0_alpha60.