'str' object has no attribute 'insert'

xlekox · n00b Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 12

Thanks

Here it worked too

Maedhros · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 3:04 pm Post subject:

brandi · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject:

Xk2c · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 240

saw nobody mentioning it, so here is the bug Report:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63400
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Xk2c · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 240

from bug:

Kuhrscher · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 9:07 pm Post subject:

Ahhh, it's fixed. I just tried to removed "/usr/portage/profiles" and did an "emerge sync" and the problem is gone

LordPov · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:28 am Post subject:

Yep, I'm working too =)

I just did an 'rm -f /usr/portage/profiles/base/make.defaults'.
Just re-sync'ed then, and there seems to be an update for portage =)

Tlvenn · n00b Joined: 27 Jun 2003 Posts: 18

Using amd64 and did the following :

Bernhard · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 21

Hey,
problem isn´t solved for me.
I tried symlinking make.profile to all kind of different profiles, doesn´t help, I deleted /usr/portage/profile, emerge-websynced, tried to sync, nothing: Error is still here:

2weistein · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 10

Hi,

i got the identical problem like Bernhard.

My Gentoo installation is one year old and uses the profile gcc34-amd64-2004.1. Until few days ago i had no internet and so i couldnt upgrade. I read that gcc34-amd64 is deprecated, but after a "emerge sync" there isnt the fixing profile default-amd64... Is this deprecated, too?
I tried all profiles in default-linux/amd64/ but with all this profiles i get the message, which Bernhard got:

djmayo · n00b Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Bath, UK

Hi guys,

Just came across this problem over the weekend after I did 'emerge sync' after quite a long time of inactivity on my Linux box. None of the proposed solutions helped me either but there was a reference in the bug report (quoted in this thread) about linking make.profile to the 'hardened' set of profiles, aka:

rm /etc/make.profile
ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/hardened/x86/2.6 /etc/make.profile

I tried this even though I'm not running SELINUX. I also deleted /usr/portage/profiles/base/make.defaults and was able to do 'emerge portage'.

I've now swapped my profile back to the 2005.0 profile and it all seems to be working fine again. Now to run a full update and see what happens.....

David, Bath/UK

Maedhros · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject:

The non-cascading profiles are now in /usr/portage/profiles/obselete. Just change the /etc/make.profile symlink to the profile suitable for your architecture, upgrade portage to 2.0.51, and change the profile back.
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shipwright · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 1

Thank you!

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Maedhros · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:44 pm Post subject:

See my earlier post. You're using a version of portage that is too old to understand the default-linux/x86/2005.1 profile, so you have to use an old profile and then update portage before using the 2005.1 profile.
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sagio · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 4

Azzerhoden · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 11

I am also having trouble with this. Started when I was running emerge sync.

Received the ARCH warning about make.profile being broke

Found this thread, read through the information, set make.profile to point to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1

Ran emerge sync again, received an error suggesting I try to run rm -Rf on profiles, and attempt to emerge sync again.

Did so, appears it works, and at the very end gives me the following:
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>>> 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)
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Tried to run this a second time, received (amoung other output):
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receiving file list ...
1 file to consider

Number of files: 1
Number of files transferred: 0
Total file size: 32 bytes
Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 32
Total bytes written: 206
Total bytes read: 461

wrote 206 bytes read 461 bytes 444.67 bytes/sec
total size is 32 speedup is 0.05

>>>
>>> SERVER OUT OF DATE: rsync://134.68.220.73/gentoo-portage
>>>

* An update to portage is available. It is _highly_ recommended
* that you update portage now, before any other packages are updated.
* Please do so and then update ALL of your configuration files.
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Following the instructions elsewhere on this site, I tried the following:
# emerge-webrsync
shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent direct
ories: No such file or directory
chdir: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories
: No such file or directory
Fetching most recent snapshot
Syncing local tree...
--------------------------

And it is just sitting there. I'm going to go ahead and post this info and search the forums for more info, and will update this when/if i find something. However, please point out somethign I am missing, as I'm sure is the case........

Azzerhoden · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 11

OK. It finally came back and updated the system. Finished with:
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*** Completed websync, please now perform a normal rsync if possible.
Update is current as of the of YYMMDD: 20060111
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However, runnign emerge sync produced the same error message again:
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!!! '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)
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So I followed the advise and tried 'rm -Rf /usr/portage/profiles; emerge sync' again.
It ran through the update/sync process again, and am now in a loop it appears
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!!! '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)
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So, any thoguhts on what I should do at this point?

Azzerhoden · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 11

OK, issue resolved.

Review and follow the information in this link:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-414549-highlight-portage+rescue.html

chieuphu · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 131

I got this error when I try to emerge. Please help

phajdan.jr · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 4:12 pm Post subject:

Do you use unstable/patched portage? Looks like a bug.

tomk · Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 4:19 pm Post subject:

Merged previous two posts.
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selim · Apprentice Joined: 14 Apr 2004 Posts: 219

I have the same problem now but I can't go back to an older profile cause there is no one anymore.
Someone any idea how I can fix this problem, I've thought about installing the latest portage snapshot but I'm not sure if this will work cause all the installed packages could be deleted, so I had to reinstall all dependencies again.

Maedhros · Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 3:38 pm Post subject:

You should be able to find an old profile in /usr/portage/profiles/obselete. If not, which profile are you upgrading from?
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