So I managed to get Linux booting on my SGI Octane again, and am trying to carefully update the ancient, ~2009-era userland to something more modern. I started with Portage-2.1, Python-2.5.x, gcc-4.3.3, and glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2. So far, I have updated to Portage-2.2.10 on Python-2.6.9 and just got gcc-4.8.2 merged. But trying to update glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 to glibc-2.19 is producing the below traceback: # emerge -uD =sys-libs/glibc-2.19 /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/_global_updates.py:121: DeprecationWarning: portage.dbapi.porttree.portdbapi.porttree_root is deprecated in favor of portage.repository.config.RepoConfig.location (available as repositories[repo_name].location attribute of instances of portage.dbapi.porttree.portdbapi class) master_repo = portdb.getRepositoryName(portdb.porttree_root) /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/news.py:64: DeprecationWarning: portage.dbapi.porttree.portdbapi.porttree_root is deprecated in favor of portage.repository.config.RepoConfig.location (available as repositories[repo_name].location attribute of instances of portage.dbapi.porttree.portdbapi class) portdir = portdb.porttree_root Calculating dependencies -/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/FakeVartree.py:302: DeprecationWarning: portage.dbapi.porttree.portdbapi.porttree_root is deprecated in favor of portage.repository.config.RepoConfig.location (available as repositories[repo_name].location attribute of instances of portage.dbapi.porttree.portdbapi class) master_repo = portdb.getRepositoryName(portdb.porttree_root) ... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 50, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1037, in emerge_main return run_action(emerge_config) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 4061, in run_action emerge_config.args, spinner) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 320, in action_build settings, trees, myopts, myparams, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 8403, in backtrack_depgraph myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 8435, in _backtrack_depgraph success, favorites = mydepgraph.select_files(myfiles) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 3093, in select_files return self._select_files(args) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 3429, in _select_files return self._resolve(myfavorites) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 3584, in _resolve self.altlist() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 6229, in altlist self._resolve_conflicts() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 6356, in _resolve_conflicts self._process_slot_conflicts() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 1212, in _process_slot_conflicts self._solve_non_slot_operator_slot_conflicts() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 1130, in _solve_non_slot_operator_slot_conflicts forced.add(nodes[0]) IndexError: tuple index out of range I've tried several variations, but it looks like I have to bypass dependency calculation w/ --nodeps for now. I don't know how reproducible this one is. Let me know if any more specific info is needed. emerge --info: /usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py:1583: DeprecationWarning: portage.dbapi.porttree.portdbapi.porttree_root is deprecated in favor of portage.repository.config.RepoConfig.location (available as repositories[repo_name].location attribute of instances of portage.dbapi.porttree.portdbapi class) main_repo = portdb.getRepositoryName(portdb.porttree_root) Portage 2.2.10 (default/linux/mips/13.0, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 3.14.5-mipsgit-20140415 mips64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.14.5-mipsgit-20140415-mips64-R14000_V2.4_FPU_V0.0-with-gentoo-2.0.1 KiB Mem: 1783876 total, 842900 free KiB Swap: 1349448 total, 1349448 free Timestamp of tree: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 08:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2 distcc 3.1 mips-unknown-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p47 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4, 2.5.4-r2, 2.6.9, 2.7.6-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.7-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6-r1, 1.5-r1, 1.6.3-r1, 1.7.9-r2, 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.1.2, 4.3.3, 4.8.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.27-r2 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.9_p20081201-r2 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="mips ~mips" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="mips-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=r10000 -mtune=r10000 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -fforce-addr" CHOST="mips-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/init.d /etc/pam.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=r10000 -mtune=r10000 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -fforce-addr" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/obj" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="acl berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx gdbm ip30 ipv6 mips modules ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl pppd python readline ssl tcpd unicode userlocales zlib" ALSA_CARDS="au1x00" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev impact newport v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 510270 ***
