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hi, i am farly new to gentoo, and was having hard disc problems, i fixed
problem, but some of my data vas gone. i emerged what was missing and
everything was working fine untill i did emerge sync and saw that some
files could not be synced. i run emerge portage, same problem. then i did
it, i typed emerge unmerge portage, and it was gone. then i tried emerge
portage and the answer was: emerge: command not found??? man i am stupid!!!
well i tried portage rescue with and without sandbox, everytime same
messages, they are listed below. if anyone could help me i would be wery
gratefull, i dont want to install gentoo again, it is working great.

thanks in advance, sa?o

this is what i get, when i run emerge portage:

bash-2.05b# emerge portage
Calculating dependencies ...done!
Failed to open file for writedict(): //var/lib/portage/world
>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.50-r6 to /
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/emerge", line 2704, in ?
mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist())
File "/bin/emerge", line 1633, in merge
retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgs ettings,edebug)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2638, in doebuild
if not digestcheck(checkme, mysettings, ("strict" in features)):
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2341, in digestcheck
return digestCheckFiles(myfiles, mydigests, basedir, "src_uri", strict)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2263, in digestCheckFiles
mymd5=perform_md5(myfile)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2789, in perform_md5
return perform_checksum(x, calc_prelink)[0]
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 459, in perform_checksum
mylock = lockfile(prelink_tmpfile, wantnewlockfile=1)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 182, in lockfile
raise IOError, "Base path does not exist '%s'" % os.path.dirname(mypath)
IOError: Base path does not exist '/var/lib/portage'

On Sat, 08 May 2004 21:10:13 +0200, sas wrote:
....
> IOError: Base path does not exist '/var/lib/portage'

The first thing I'd try is mkdir /var/lib/portage, then run it again.

sas <sale23@fjjjg.com> writes:


> well i tried portage rescue with and without sandbox, everytime same
> messages, they are listed below....

I have no idea if this will help, but it's worth a try.

I notice that portage-rescue installs python scripts in /usr/lib/python2.2

If you have updated your python to 2.3.x maybe(?) those scripts are not
running correctly.

Try running /usr/sbin/python-updater and see if helps.

Good luck!

Hi, it is me again.

I tried pym updater, like walt suggested, but it was giving me
messages that all ebuilds were masked. I checked for arches in
ebuilds, but ther were none, so the error must be somwhere else.
then i tried mkdir like adam mcmaster sugested, and runned portage
rescue again, and these are the results:

bash-2.05b# emerge portage
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/emerge", line 10, in ?
import emergehelp,xpak,string,re,commands,time,shutil,tra ceback,
atexit,signal,socket,types
File "/bin/emergehelp.py", line 7, in ?
from output import *
ImportError: No module named output

anay ideas?
thanks, sas

IT IS WORKING AGAIN!!!

When i was doing portage rescue at first i dint see any errors, but at
closer look there were some files that already existed, and werent
overwritten. So i unpacked portage rescue and copied files manually and
then i saw that files that files that already existed were empty (0 bytes
in lenght), so i owerwrited them and also copied /pym from portage that i
downloaded to /usr/lib/portage. Then i got messages, that it cannot write
to /usr/lib/portage/world, that it doesnt exist. Then i tried file search
in kde for *world and it gave me a solution: it found regenworld in /bin,
so i did it and it was complainig that it cant be written
in /var/db/portage. Why? Because it didnt existed, so i made that directory
runned again, emerged portage without sandbox and it worked!!!!!!
wery proud of myself, thx for help
sas

Glad to hear you got it working

Hi, same me, new problem:

I emerged portage, then runned etc-update and tried to emerge something, and
got this for an answer:

bash-2.05b# emerge foobillard
Calculating dependencies \
!!! Problem in games-sports/foobillard dependencies.
!!! dep_check() got an unexpected keyword argument 'use_binaries'

or:

bash-2.05b# emerge -u -p world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/bin/emerge", line 2617, in ?
if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
File "/bin/emerge", line 1137, in xcreate
worldlist=getlist("world")
File "/bin/emerge", line 694, in getlist
myfile=open(portage.root+portage.WORLD_FILE,"r")
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'WORLD_FILE'


please help, dont know what to do anymore.

thx, sas

hello!

I read somwhere on gentoo forum, that somebody fixed similar problem with
completely deleting portage, and extracting latest snapshot.
I did it, then i did emerge sync and it was ok, but at the end these
messages appeared: - only listed few of them

Failed cache update: x11-plugins/wmbattery-1.2.1-r1
/
Failed cache update: x11-plugins/wmbattery-2.19
-
Failed cache update: x11-plugins/wmbiff-0.4.15
\
Failed cache update: x11-plugins/wmbiff-0.4.17
|
Failed cache update: x11-plugins/wmbiff-0.4.20
/
Failed cache update: x11-plugins/wmbinclock-0.1
-
Failed cache update: x11-plugins/wmbio-1.01

and if i emerge anything:

bash-2.05b# emerge karamba
Calculating dependencies
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "karamba" have been masked.
!!! possible candidates are:

!!! Problem in x11-misc/karamba dependencies.
!!! 'PROVIDE'


now what? any ideas?
thx, sas