608854 – app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.2-r1 reports "could not save cache: write() argument 1 must be unicode, not str"

Bug 608854 - app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.2-r1 reports "could not save cache: write() argument 1 must be unicode, not str"

Summary: app-portage/gentoolkit-0.3.2-r1 reports "could not save cache: write() argume...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 589130

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Tools (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage Tools Team

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Reported:	2017-02-10 10:22 UTC by Rob van Riel
Modified:	2017-02-10 16:04 UTC (History)
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Description Rob van Riel 2017-02-10 10:22:23 UTC

Revdep-rebuild produced the output below. "Checking dynamic linking consistency" was over in a blink, while this normally takes quite a bit of time. Given the write error just before it, I suspect it scanned an empty list.

root@jarl:/portage/main/dev-util/boost-build#revdep-rebuild
 * This is the new python coded version
 * Please report any bugs found using it.
 * The original revdep-rebuild script is installed as revdep-rebuild.sh
 * Please file bugs at: https://bugs.gentoo.org/
 * Collecting system binaries and libraries
	Could not save cache: write() argument 1 must be unicode, not str
 * Checking dynamic linking consistency

Your system is consistent


Reproducible: Always




Have not yet tested accross multiple systems, but will in the coming days. Will update if this shows different behaviours.

Comment 1 Francesco Turco 2017-02-10 13:45:54 UTC

Probably this is a duplicate of bug 589130.

Comment 2 Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-02-10 16:04:18 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 589130 ***