Ran into this issue during a world update. >>> Emerging binary (1 of 42) app-misc/ca-certificates-20140927.3.17.2::gentoo * ca-certificates-20140927.3.17.2.tbz2 MD5 SHA1 size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Extracting info >>> Extracting app-misc/ca-certificates-20140927.3.17.2 >>> Installing (1 of 42) app-misc/ca-certificates-20140927.3.17.2::gentoo Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/_MergeProcess.py", line 234, in _spawn prev_mtimes=self.prev_mtimes, counter=counter) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4985, in merge counter=counter) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4146, in treewalk rval = self._merge_contents(srcroot, destroot, cfgfiledict) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4424, in _merge_contents self.settings["EPREFIX"].lstrip(os.sep), cfgfiledict, mymtime): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4616, in mergeme myrealdest, mydmode, destmd5, mydest_link) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4918, in _protect force=force) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/util/__init__.py", line 1704, in new_protect_filename encoding=_encodings['merge'], errors='replace') TypeError: _unicode_decode() takes at least 1 argument (2 given) >>> Failed to install app-misc/ca-certificates-20140927.3.17.2, Log file: >>> '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20140927.3.17.2/temp/build.log' (full build log at http://download.sumptuouscapital.com/gentoo/ca-certificates-20140927.3.17.2-build.log.txt ) # emerge --info Portage 2.2.18 (python 2.7.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.20-r2, 3.4.91-gentoo-r1-kf0 x86_64) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge -1 ca-certificates
Duplicate of bug 546176 (Fixed in portage 2.2.19.)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 546176 ***
