All my portage commands is invalid!!! Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kingo · n00b Joined: 30 Nov 2002 Posts: 7

The power is suddenly off as I was using emerge command.
When I rebooted the system, ALL Portage commands can not be used.
When I use portage command such as emerge or etc-update, it tells me that:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6, in ?
import os,sys,portage,emergehelp,xpak,string,re,commands,time,threading,shutil,traceback
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4359, in ?
settings=config()
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 807, in __init__
self.mygcfg=getconfig("/etc/make.conf")
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 605, in getconfig
val=lex.get_token()
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/shlex.py", line 74, in get_token
raw = self.read_token()
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/shlex.py", line 144, in read_token
raise ValueError, "No closing quotation"
ValueError: No closing quotation

How should I fix it without re-installing Gentoo Linux?
Thanks a lot!!!

metacove · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 148

"All my portage are belong to invalid!"

On a more serious note, you might try removing the portage tree and doing an emerge sync again.

red_over_blue · Guru Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 310

I'm no guru but it looks more serious than that. From those error messages, it looks like the portage python script has been corrupted.

I don't know if this will help, but you could examine the file /usr/bin/emerge (it's just text) and see if it looks messed.

If so, and you tell me where the damn attach file button is

I will attach my emerge file and you can replace yours with it. Hopefully that will get things going, and then I would emerge portage again.

red_over_blue · Guru Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 310

Or give me your email address and I will email it to you.

Sarah · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 82

Sarah · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 82

I did a little more poking around that portage rescue stuff and I don't see the file that was corrupted for you so it looks like Python itself is messed up

. You could try to untar the Python files if you have a tarball of Python in your /usr/portage/distfiles directory. Make sure it's the same version as the one you already had installed. Otherwise, take up red_over_blue's offer of getting the file emailed to you. Hopefully, the other Python files are ok. My copy of shlex.py is 209 lines long so I am resistant to just spamming the board with it.

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I'll add to these instructions to untar the Python into a temporary directory and copy the shlex.py file from it to the proper place in the /usr/lib/python2.2 directory.
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Kingo · n00b Joined: 30 Nov 2002 Posts: 7

Thanks for everybody's help, specially sarah!!!!

I just accorded to the file README.RESCUE, and untar the portage-***.bz2. and then I can use the portage commands.

Thanks again.

DeadMonkey · Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 2:05 am Post subject:

A big thanks once again for those, unlike me, who have a clue! :oops:

So far everything is working out.