To whom it may concern: I am sending you this email at the request of some vague error output from a failed Portage tree update in Gentoo Linux. I recently tried to update my Portage tree on an older PentiumII computer I own. It runs a Hardened Gentoo Linux Kernel that I installed early in September of 2004. When I attempted to update my Portage, I got the error/message below. I will add that running 'rm -Rf' command suggested below did not solve the problem and all subsequent attempts to run "emerge sync" or "emerge rsync" failed in exactly the same way. Lastly, I'll add that I first ran "emerge sync" while logged into this Gentoo box using a Putty SSH client on another machine. wrote 14905 bytes read 3290281 bytes 37346.73 bytes/sec total size is 83521242 speedup is 25.27 >>> Updating Portage cache... ...done! !!! 'str' object has no attribute 'insert' !!! 'rm -Rf /usr/portage/profiles; emerge sync' may fix this. If it does !!! not then please report this to bugs.gentoo.org and, if possible, a dev !!! on #gentoo (irc.freenode.org) Sincerely, Nate Seif seifn@uchicago.edu Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sync 2. rm -Rf /usr/portage/profiles 3. emerge sync Actual Results: Portage spat out exactly the results/messages I listed in the "Details" field above on every successive execution of "emerge sync." Expected Results: The software should have updated my Portage tree (i.e. emerge sync should not have errored out). The machine in question runs Gentoo Hardened Linux, with the linux-2.6.7-hardened-r8 kernel, 192 MB RAM, Pentium II-350 MHz. chip. Earlier in the day I had successfully downloaded/merged Apache 2 (though without having updated my Portage tree). I tried to download MySQL but this kept failing (which is why I wanted to update my Portage tree).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63400 ***
