This is happening on both systems I've tried it on... not sure if it's jpilot or portage, but I'm looking into it... $ emerge -Uv jpilot ... merges fine... --- /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ >>> /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/jpilot.mo --- /usr/share/applications/ >>> /usr/share/applications/jpilot.desktop * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ] >>> app-pda/jpilot-0.99.6-r1 merged. app-pda/jpilot selected: 0.99.5 protected: 0.99.6-r1 omitted: none >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. >>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting... >>> (Control-C to abort)... >>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 >>> Unmerging app-pda/jpilot-0.99.5... No package files given... Grabbing a set. --- !mtime obj /usr/share/man/man1/jpilot.1.gz --- !mtime obj /usr/share/man/man1/jpilot-upgrade-99.1.gz ... --- !mtime obj /usr/bin/jpilot-dial --- !mtime obj /usr/bin/jpilot <<< dir /usr/doc/jpilot-0.99.5/icons <<< dir /usr/doc/jpilot-0.99.5 mydirs[37] /usr/share/doc/jpilot-0.99.5 obj /usr/share/doc/jpilot-0.99.5 objld None Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2599, in ? mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1600, in merge retval=unmerge("clean", [xsplit[0]]) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1852, in unmerge retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,mysettings,unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2496, in unmerge mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld,cleanup=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5377, in unmerge if len(objld)>0: TypeError: len() of unsized object Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. ~ $ emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22-gentoo-r5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-loops=4" 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/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-loops=4" DISTDIR="/usr/local/download/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache digest sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio. org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/local/download/portage/packages-pentium3" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/download/portage" SYNC="rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage" USE="3ds S3TC X X509 Xaw3d acl alsa altivec amd apache2 apm ardour-ksi arts artswrappersuid asterisk atlas autofs avantgo avi berkdb bidi bindist bonobo caps cdr cgi clamav clisp cmucl crypt cscope cups curl dedicated dga directfb dnd doc dv dvd dvdr emacs emacs-w3 encode esd ethereal evo expat faad fam fax fbcon fbdev ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb freetype fs gb gcl gd gd-external gdbm ggi gif glut gmtfull gmthigh gmtsuppl gmttria gnome gnomedb gpg gphoto2 gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci icc imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 innodb ipalias ipv6 jack java javascript jbig jikes joystick jpeg js junit justify kde kerberos krb4 ladcca lcd lcms ldam leim libdsk libg libg++ libgda libwww lids lirc lmtp ltsp lua lucid mad maildir matroska mcal md5sum menu mikmod milter mmx mng motif mozaccess mozcalendar mozctl mozilla mozinterfaceinfo mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mpi msn mule music mysql nas ncurses neXt nls nvidia nviz oav objc oci8 odbc offensive ofx oggvorbis oldworld openal opengl openssh oscar oss pam parse-clocks passfile pcap pcmcia pda pdflib perl php pic plotutils png pnp postgres ppds prelude psyco python qhull qt quicktime readline rplay ruby samba sasl scanner sdk sdl skey slang slp snmp socks5 sox speex spell sqlite src sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff transcode transparent-proxy truetype trusted type1 unicode usb videos vim-with-x virus-scan wmf wxwin wxwindows x86 xchattext xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid yahoo zeo zlib"
'emerge unmerge jpilot && emerge -v jpilot' managed to get it installed... I still have the other system to mess with to figure out what the problem is...
doesn't seem its jpilot specific? in any case, the correct herd is pda and not mobile.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25339 ***
