unable to emerge --sync due to TypeError: unsubscriptable ob

[miamicanes]

Well, I've now made it to section 6 of the Gentoo Handbook, but I've run into a new problem. When I got to step 6b and ran emerge --sync to update the Portage tree, it ran for about 2 hours and ultimately ended with:

... (off the screen)
deleting x11-misc/xxkb/files/readme

Number of files: 145008
Number of files transferred: 60578
Total file size: 163024872 bytes
Total transferred file size: 81532920 bytes
Literal data: 81533163 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 3291930
Total bytes sent: 1211709
Total bytes received: 87555733

sent 1211709 bytes received 87555733 bytes 39199.58 bytes/sec
total size is 163024872 speedup is 1.84

>>> Updating Portage cache:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3004, in ?
conf = portage.config(config_profile_path=portage.settings.profile_path[:], \
TypeError: unsubscriptable object


any suggestions what to try next?

If it matters, it's an ancient Toshiba 300CDS laptop with P-166, 96mb ram, 128mb swapfile, 2.1-gig hard drive, and 2-gig PCMCIA microdrive that's mounted as /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage and is holding all the portage files unzipped from the .bz2 file. At one point while the script was running (about 45 minutes before it ended), I noticed that it said something about a timeout, but it scrolled off the screen too quickly to read.

[miamicanes]

Well, a little good news. Even though rsync blocking wasn't my problem, I decided to try emerge-webrsync instead.

It appears to have worked:

[donjames]

Hi,

I got the same error running emerge --sync. Ran emerge-webrsync and everything seems to be working right.

I wonder what happened?

Sincerely,

Don James

[lalebarde]

Hi

I have exactly the same problem . I am going to do the same as you did.

Best regards


Laurent

[big]

no problem with SYNC="rsync://rsync.asia.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" .
i tried it just now.
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