When portage was synced weeks ago, emerge throws an exeception: # emerge -av some-package Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python2.7/emerge", line 50, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/main.py", line 1070, in emerge_main return run_action(emerge_config) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py", line 4082, in run_action emerge_config.args, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py", line 99, in action_build old_tree_timestamp_warn(settings['PORTDIR'], settings) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/sync/old_tree_timestamp.py", line 98, in old_tree_timestamp_warn time.strftime('%c', time.localtime(lastsync))) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 19: ordinal not in range(128) Quick workaround: # export LANG="C" # emerge -av some-package * Last emerge --sync was 50d 8h 6m 54s ago. .....and continues normally..... My original LANG: $ echo $LANG hu_HU.UTF-8 The trace seems to be scary (indicating something is very broken), --sync also did not work originally. However, after applying the workaround it works fine.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 530982 ***
