cannot emerge any package

siaton · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2013 Posts: 16

Running
emerge sys-apps/portage
with portage-2.2.1 and python2.6
gives

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 50, in <module>
retval = emerge_main()
File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1030, in emerge_main
return run_action(emerge_config)
File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 4025, in run_action
emerge_config.target_config, emerge_config.opts)
File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/proxy/objectproxy.py", line 31, in __call__
return result(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/post_emerge.py", line 43, in display_news_notification
news_counts = count_unread_news(portdb, vardb)
File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/news.py", line 388, in count_unread_news
count = manager.getUnreadItems(repo, update=True)
File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/news.py", line 175, in getUnreadItems
self.updateItems(repoid)
File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/news.py", line 151, in updateItems
"".join("%s\n" % x for x in sorted(unread)))
File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/util/__init__.py", line 1339, in write_atomic
f = atomic_ofstream(file_path, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/util/__init__.py", line 1240, in __init__
mode=mode, **kargs))
TypeError: open() keywords must be strings

I already reinstalled portage manually without any change.

Amy help much appreciated.

Werner

Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 887 Location: Germany

Are there some more error messages?
I've had a similar issue recently and in fact I was lacking space on /root.
What does df -h say?
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siaton · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2013 Posts: 16

All my partitions have definitely enough space. What I have is an old system which I have recently updated with a new gcc and binutils. But I wasn't able to update the whole system. emerge was nevertheless working after the gcc upgrade.[/url]

There have been users with similar problems which are related to UNICODE conversions which python versions <= 2.6 couldn't handle properly:

http://www.google.ch/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&ved=0CFQQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcuu508.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F27%2Fkeywords-must-be-strings%2F&ei=Q4ZeUqzCJ4KytAaksIHQAw&usg=AFQjCNGTz09mK0H9xO8hUQ5uVh4T_ypT4Q&bvm=bv.54176721,d.Yms

I was thinking about to manually install python v2.7. Is this possible?

Werner

Added closing tag to the link. -- desultory

666threesixes666 · Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 12:53 pm Post subject:

as root

eselect python list
eselect python set python3.2

python3.2 is what portage shipped with on my systems, and is known to work under those for me. 2.6 2.7 probably not so much, there are big big differences in python between 2.x series and 3.x

gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793

maybe related to https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7399786.html ?
if it is perhaps manually upgrading portage ( as described here -> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml ) to the latest one helps ?

Make sure to run python-updater in case you switch to 3.x.

cheers

siaton · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2013 Posts: 16

A small step forward. I manually installed portage-2.2.7 according to

[/http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml]

I didn't copied the directories bin cnf doc man misc which arenot in portage-2.2.1.

I was able to run emerge sys-apps/portage and emerge --sync but when trying to emerge portage-utils
the TypeError popped up again:

>>> Completed installing portage-utils-0.30 into /var/tmp/portage/app-portage/portage-utils-0.30/image/

siaton · n00b Joined: 15 Oct 2013 Posts: 16

After manually installing portage-2.2.7 I was able to emerge python-3.2.

Then I did

chiefbag · Guru Joined: 01 Oct 2010 Posts: 542 Location: The Kingdom

This worked for me: