eeeek! emerge knackered

trooper · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 9:33 pm Post subject: eeeek! emerge knackered

g'day,

i updated portage.

now when i try to emerge anything i get the error message "/usr/bin/env: python 2.2: no such file or directory".

i tried env-update && source /etc/profile. this returned the error message "bash /usr/sbin/env-update: /usr/bin/python 2.2: bad interpreter: no such file or directory"

i've searched the forums 'til i'm blue in the face to no avail. i do get some returns on "bad intepreter" but nothing i can see that is relevant to the missing python 2.2. the search term "missing python 2.2 returns nothing. no emerge command works.

regards,

glenn

ebrostig · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 10:01 pm Post subject:

What can you tell us about your Python installation?

If you try to list all the Python files in /usr/bin, you should see something like this:

sheepdog · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 10:04 pm Post subject: missing python

Sounds like your Python is gone. Portage won't work without it. I've done that. Here's where I got the info necessary to recover:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=27900#27900

trooper · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:37 pm Post subject:

g'day,

erik: command returned "no such file or directory"

sheepdog: as suggested i did the tar xzf /usr/portage/distfiles/Python-2.2.1.tgz, which i downloaded from ibiblio. this returned.
"tar: this does not look like a tar archive.
tar: skipping to next header
tar: archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: error exit delayed from previous errors"

thanks for your replies.

help!

glenn

trooper · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 12:53 am Post subject:

g'day,

i solved the last problem. i noticed that when i tried to emerge it said no python-2.2. i downloaded 2.2 in place and was able get going again. yippee.

thank for the answers :-)

glenn

sheepdog · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 12:57 am Post subject: download

It would appear that the download did not complete normally. My Python looks like