[SOLVED] Gentoo broken in a lot of ways for no reason

[Ari_archer]

I notice this from March 2021 on the web:
https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage ... rge.1.html

PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT = [path]
Use PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT to specify the location for various portage configuration files (see FILES for a detailed list of configuration files). This variable can be set via the --config-root option. However, it is now superseded by the SYSROOT variable and can only be given if its value matches SYSROOT or if ROOT=/.
Defaults to /.

So I searched for that instead:

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~ $ sudo grep SYSROOT -r /etc/*
/etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-apps/busybox-1.23.1-r1:CONFIG_SYSROOT=""
/etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-apps/busybox-1.32.1-r1:CONFIG_SYSROOT=""

For what it's worth, if anything.

Still no results

[Ari_archer]

Ari_archer,

There are no hits in /etc/portage, nor are there any permission denied problems in /etc/portage

That tells that CONFIG_ROOT is not set by anything that we would expect to influence portage.
It must be in the environment before emerge is started.

As your normal user, try

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grep CONFIG_ROOT -r ~/

As the root user,

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grep CONFIG_ROOT -r /root

~ is short for /home/<user_name/>

grep CONFIG_ROOT -r ~/:

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/bin/grep: /home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/opencv_python.libs/libxkbcommon-71ae2972.so.0.0.0: binary file matches
/bin/grep: /home/ari/.mozilla/firefox/qvtx0u0z.default-esr/sessionstore-backups/recovery.baklz4: binary file matches
/bin/grep: /home/ari/.mozilla/firefox/qvtx0u0z.default-esr/sessionstore-backups/recovery.jsonlz4: binary file matches

grep CONFIG_ROOT -r /root didn't return anything

grep PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT -r /root returned nothing

grep PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT -r ~/:

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/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py:                        "PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py:        settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], BINREPOS_CONF_FILE
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_emerge/actions.py:        ("config_root", "PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"),
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_emerge/depgraph.py:                    settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], USER_CONFIG_PATH
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_emerge/depgraph.py:                settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], USER_CONFIG_PATH
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_emerge/depgraph.py:                    settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"],
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_emerge/depgraph.py:                    settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], USER_CONFIG_PATH
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_emerge/main.py:        os.environ["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"] = myopts["--config-root"]
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/_emerge/post_emerge.py:        settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], portage.USER_CONFIG_PATH, "bin", "post_emerge"
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/_legacy_globals.py:        ("config_root", "PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"),
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/_legacy_globals.py:    profiledir = os.path.join(settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], PROFILE_PATH)
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/const.py:# The first, config_root (PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT), can be a path somewhere,
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/_sets/__init__.py:                "PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT": settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"],
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/_sets/__init__.py:        parser.set("usersets", "directory", "%(PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT)setc/portage/sets")
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/_sets/__init__.py:            settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], USER_CONFIG_PATH, "sets.conf"
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/_sets/files.py:            os.path.join(settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], USER_CONFIG_PATH, "sets"),
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/_sets/files.py:            "directory", os.path.join(settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], USER_CONFIG_PATH)
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/binrepo/config.py:            "PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT": settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"],
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/dbapi/bintree.py:                    self.settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], BINREPOS_CONF_FILE
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/dbapi/bintree.py:                            % (mycpv, self.settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"]),
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/dbapi/porttree.py:                % (mycp, self.settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"]),
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/elog/mod_mail_summary.py:    config_root = mysettings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"]
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py:    parent profiles as well as from ROOT/PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT/* for user specified
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py:        @param config_root: path to read local config from (defaults to "/", see PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT)
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py:            expand_map["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"] = config_root
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py:            self["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"] = config_root
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py:            self["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"] = config_root
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py:            self.backup_changes("PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT")
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py:            portage.output._init(config_root=self["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"])
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py:                x = os.path.join(self["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], x)
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py:                    self["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], PROFILE_PATH
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py:        abs_user_virtuals = os.path.join(self["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], USER_VIRTUALS_FILE)
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py:                os.path.join(self["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], PROFILE_PATH)
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/config.py:        abs_user_config = os.path.join(self["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], USER_CONFIG_PATH)
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/deprecated_profile_check.py:        config_root = settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"]
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py:        mysettings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], EBUILD_SH_ENV_FILE
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/doebuild.py:        mysettings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], EBUILD_SH_ENV_DIR
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/fetch.py:        os.path.join(mysettings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], CUSTOM_MIRRORS_FILE), recursive=1
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/getmaskingreason.py:    locations.append(os.path.join(settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], USER_CONFIG_PATH))
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/_config/LocationsManager.py:        self._check_var_directory("PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT", self.config_root)
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/_config/special_env_vars.py:        "PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT",
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/_config/special_env_vars.py:    "PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT",
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/repository/config.py:            "PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT": settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"],
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/repository/config.py:            os.path.join(settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"], USER_CONFIG_PATH, "repos.conf")
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/sync/controller.py:            hooks = get_hooks_from_dir(_dir, prefix=self.settings["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"])
/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/tests/emerge/test_simple.py:                "PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT",
/home/ari/.local/lib/portage/bin/emerge-webrsync:	PORTAGE_BIN_PATH PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT PORTAGE_GPG_DIR \
/home/ari/.local/lib/portage/bin/emerge-webrsync:	local post_sync=${PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT}etc/portage/bin/post_sync
/home/ari/.local/lib/portage/bin/etc-update:		"${PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT}"etc/etc-update.conf)
/home/ari/.local/lib/portage/bin/etc-update:	local special="${PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT}etc/etc-update.special"
/home/ari/.local/lib/portage/bin/etc-update:	PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT='/'
/home/ari/.local/lib/portage/bin/etc-update:	PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT='/'
/home/ari/.local/lib/portage/bin/etc-update:	PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT
/home/ari/.local/lib/portage/bin/misc-functions.sh:		sfconf=${PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT}etc/portage/suidctl.conf
/home/ari/.local/lib/portage/bin/misc-functions.sh:	local hooks_dir="${PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT}etc/portage/hooks/install"
/home/ari/.local/lib/portage/bin/phase-functions.sh:	PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND PORTAGE_COLORMAP PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT \
/home/ari/.local/lib/portage/bin/phase-helpers.sh:		local basedir=${PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT%/}/etc/portage/patches
/home/ari/.local/lib/portage/bin/portageq:			os.environ["PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"] = eroot
/home/ari/.local/share/man/man1/egencache.1:.BR "\-\-config\-root=PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT"
/home/ari/.local/share/man/man1/emerge.1:Set the \fBPORTAGE_CONFIGROOT\fR environment variable.
/home/ari/.local/share/man/man1/emerge.1:\fBPORTAGE_CONFIGROOT\fR = \fI[path]\fR
/home/ari/.local/share/man/man1/emerge.1:Use \fBPORTAGE_CONFIGROOT\fR to specify the location for various portage
/home/ari/.local/share/man/man1/etc-update.1:\fIetc\-update\fR respects the normal \fIPORTAGE_CONFIGROOT\fR and
/home/ari/.local/share/man/man1/ru/etc-update.1:\fIetc\-update\fR учитывает переменные \fIPORTAGE_CONFIGROOT\fR
/home/ari/.local/share/man/man5/portage.5:directory =  %(PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT)setc/portage/sets
/home/ari/.local/share/portage/config/sets/portage.conf:directory =  %(PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT)setc/portage/sets
/home/ari/.local/share/portage/doc/RELEASE-NOTES:      override PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT
/home/ari/.local/share/portage/doc/RELEASE-NOTES:    - Bug 511806 make.conf: expand PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT
/home/ari/.local/share/portage/doc/RELEASE-NOTES:                 PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT
/home/ari/Ari/coding/html_css_js_/website_terminal/data/sosupebujo:PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/usr/"

and yeah hehe, i know what ~ is ;D

[NeddySeagoon]

Ari_archer,

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/home/ari/Ari/coding/html_css_js_/website_terminal/data/sosupebujo:PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/usr/" 

What is that for?

[dbtx]

What is that for?

That's the copy from the non-working pastebin re-posted yesterday.

Ari_archer, would you revisit /etc again with the other string, as in, grep PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT -r /etc? It seems the only time we've seen it absent from /etc/portage/make.conf is in that GitHub repo, where it was last modified two days before this problem appeared.

edit: have you considered backing up the current /etc/portage and restoring that old copy? It's a backup, after all... but the current version could also be sourcing another file such as /var/lib/layman/make.conf so it would help if you simply paste its contents. And I can only wonder how that whole copy of portage installed into ~/.local fits into all of this.

[pingtoo]

Just a wild guess were you previously trying install portage without root privilege? or another guess did you try to use crossdev at some point in past?

I am guessing your emerge command is not gentoo standard as we assume in /usr/bin/emerge so what is output

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type -P emerge

And if above output is /usr/bin/emerge, can you tell is it a symbolic link to ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2 or it point to something else?

[Ari_archer]

Ari_archer,

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/home/ari/Ari/coding/html_css_js_/website_terminal/data/sosupebujo:PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/usr/" 

What is that for?

my website's source code - it shows up as I put some of the logs there because pastebin was dead

[Ari_archer]

What is that for?

That's the copy from the non-working pastebin re-posted yesterday.

Ari_archer, would you revisit /etc again with the other string, as in, grep PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT -r /etc? It seems the only time we've seen it absent from /etc/portage/make.conf is in that GitHub repo, where it was last modified two days before this problem appeared.

edit: have you considered backing up the current /etc/portage and restoring that old copy? It's a backup, after all... but the current version could also be sourcing another file such as /var/lib/layman/make.conf so it would help if you simply paste its contents. And I can only wonder how that whole copy of portage installed into ~/.local fits into all of this.

grep PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT -r /etc:

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/bin/grep: /etc/ssl/private: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/shadow: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/gshadow-: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/ssh/sshd_config: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/shadow-: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/default/useradd: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/.pwd.lock: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/cups/snmp.conf.default: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/cups/cups-files.conf: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/cups/snmp.conf: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/cups/cups-files.conf.default: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/skel/.ssh: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/gshadow: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/sudoers.d: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/sudoers.dist: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcpv6.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-other-rarp-traffic.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-ipv4.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-arp-mac-spoofing.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcpv6-server.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-ip-spoofing.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/qemu-announce-self-rarp.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-ipv6.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-ip-multicast.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-arp-ip-spoofing.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-mac-broadcast.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-ipv6-spoofing.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/clean-traffic-gateway.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcp.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-dhcp-server.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/qemu-announce-self.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-mac-spoofing.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/clean-traffic.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-arp-spoofing.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-ipv6-multicast.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/no-other-l2-traffic.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-incoming-ipv6.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-incoming-ipv4.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/nwfilter/allow-arp.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/libvirt/secrets: Permission denied
/bin/grep: /etc/nullmailer/remotes: Permission denied

make.conf is there, just doesn't have PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT set

I don't have a backup sadly, but I tried just resetting /etc/portage and it didn't work

nope, i checked everything in /etc/portage and I never used layman - i use eselect-repository to manage my overlays

[Ari_archer]

Just a wild guess were you previously trying install portage without root privilege? or another guess did you try to use crossdev at some point in past?

I am guessing your emerge command is not gentoo standard as we assume in /usr/bin/emerge so what is output

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type -P emerge

And if above output is /usr/bin/emerge, can you tell is it a symbolic link to ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2 or it point to something else?

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ari@ari-gentoo ~ % type -P emerge
/usr/bin/emerge

ari@ari-gentoo ~ % la /usr/bin/emerge
lrwxrwxrwx root root 31 B Sun Oct  3 12:49:17 2021   emerge@ ⇒ ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2

ari@ari-gentoo ~ % la /usr/lib/python-exec/python-exec2
.rwxr-xr-x root root 2.8 KB Fri Aug 27 17:17:28 2021   python-exec2*

[NeddySeagoon]

Ari_archer,

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/home/ari/Ari/coding/html_css_js_/website_terminal/data/sosupebujo:PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/usr/" 

If that got into portages environment. it would make a mess of things.

[Ari_archer]

Ari_archer,

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/home/ari/Ari/coding/html_css_js_/website_terminal/data/sosupebujo:PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/usr/" 

If that got into portages environment. it would make a mess of things.

https://ari-web.netlify.app/data/sosupebujo

it's not in make.conf, portage is not even sourcing my make.conf

[pingtoo]

Just a wild guess were you previously trying install portage without root privilege? or another guess did you try to use crossdev at some point in past?

I am guessing your emerge command is not gentoo standard as we assume in /usr/bin/emerge so what is output

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type -P emerge

And if above output is /usr/bin/emerge, can you tell is it a symbolic link to ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2 or it point to something else?

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ari@ari-gentoo ~ % type -P emerge
/usr/bin/emerge

ari@ari-gentoo ~ % la /usr/bin/emerge
lrwxrwxrwx root root 31 B Sun Oct  3 12:49:17 2021   emerge@ ⇒ ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2

ari@ari-gentoo ~ % la /usr/lib/python-exec/python-exec2
.rwxr-xr-x root root 2.8 KB Fri Aug 27 17:17:28 2021   python-exec2*

The reason I think your system is in abnormal condition is because in your previous post the emerge was looking in to your home directory's "~/.local/lib/python" or when under root privilege it look in "~root/.local/lib/python". This is not a normal gentoo emerge behavior. Also from your previous port of declear -p; emerge --info output it show your PATH variable include ~ari/.local/bin all these indicate there was a decision to direct python use alternative/non-system setting. Do you recall what lead to such setting? maybe try share with us with output of

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python
>>> import sys
>>> print (sys.path)

[Ari_archer]

Just a wild guess were you previously trying install portage without root privilege? or another guess did you try to use crossdev at some point in past?

I am guessing your emerge command is not gentoo standard as we assume in /usr/bin/emerge so what is output

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type -P emerge

And if above output is /usr/bin/emerge, can you tell is it a symbolic link to ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2 or it point to something else?

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ari@ari-gentoo ~ % type -P emerge
/usr/bin/emerge

ari@ari-gentoo ~ % la /usr/bin/emerge
lrwxrwxrwx root root 31 B Sun Oct  3 12:49:17 2021   emerge@ ⇒ ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2

ari@ari-gentoo ~ % la /usr/lib/python-exec/python-exec2
.rwxr-xr-x root root 2.8 KB Fri Aug 27 17:17:28 2021   python-exec2*

The reason I think your system is in abnormal condition is because in your previous post the emerge was looking in to your home directory's "~/.local/lib/python" or when under root privilege it look in "~root/.local/lib/python". This is not a normal gentoo emerge behavior. Also from your previous port of declear -p; emerge --info output it show your PATH variable include ~ari/.local/bin all these indicate there was a decision to direct python use alternative/non-system setting. Do you recall what lead to such setting? maybe try share with us with output of

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python
>>> import sys
>>> print (sys.path)

I have added .local/bin to my $PATH because I run some stuff like bpython as a python module.

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ari@ari-gentoo ~ % python3
Python 3.9.6 (default, Sep  8 2021, 15:10:02)
[GCC 10.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python39.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.9', '/usr/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload', '/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages']

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ari@ari-gentoo ~ % python
Python 3.9.6 (default, Sep  8 2021, 15:10:02)
[GCC 10.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python39.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.9', '/usr/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload', '/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages']

removing it from PATH and rebooting did not help, but it worked fine before with that setting so i don't know why it's broken

[NeddySeagoon]

Ari_archer,

If that was in the environment when emerge was run, it would have the same effect as setting it in make.conf.

[pingtoo]

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ari@ari-gentoo ~ % type -P emerge
/usr/bin/emerge

ari@ari-gentoo ~ % la /usr/bin/emerge
lrwxrwxrwx root root 31 B Sun Oct  3 12:49:17 2021   emerge@ ⇒ ../lib/python-exec/python-exec2

ari@ari-gentoo ~ % la /usr/lib/python-exec/python-exec2
.rwxr-xr-x root root 2.8 KB Fri Aug 27 17:17:28 2021   python-exec2*

The reason I think your system is in abnormal condition is because in your previous post the emerge was looking in to your home directory's "~/.local/lib/python" or when under root privilege it look in "~root/.local/lib/python". This is not a normal gentoo emerge behavior. Also from your previous port of declear -p; emerge --info output it show your PATH variable include ~ari/.local/bin all these indicate there was a decision to direct python use alternative/non-system setting. Do you recall what lead to such setting? maybe try share with us with output of

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python
>>> import sys
>>> print (sys.path)

I have added .local/bin to my $PATH because I run some stuff like bpython as a python module.

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ari@ari-gentoo ~ % python3
Python 3.9.6 (default, Sep  8 2021, 15:10:02)
[GCC 10.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python39.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.9', '/usr/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload', '/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages']

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ari@ari-gentoo ~ % python
Python 3.9.6 (default, Sep  8 2021, 15:10:02)
[GCC 10.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python39.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.9', '/usr/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload', '/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages']

removing it from PATH and rebooting did not help, but it worked fine before with that setting so i don't know why it's broken

Thank you for clarify why

I am sure we can agree "computer does not perform magic, all setting must be done somehow". So the "PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT" must be set by a prior act somehow. We also know that "PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/usr" is the reason you currently experiencing abnormal behavior so my immediate thoughts is to correct it by

• set PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/ in /etc/make.conf
• remove ~ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/ directory

The reason to set PORTGE_CONFIGROOT=/ in /etc/make.conf is to overwrite PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/usr so at least we have somewhat standard gentoo portage behavior.

The reason to remove ~ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/ directory is to ensure portage is not using a outdated/misconfigred code

After you make these change you can try emerge --info again to see if the PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT got overwrite as expected. You shouldn't need to reboot because those changes should not be overwrite by system boot sequence.

[Ari_archer]

The reason I think your system is in abnormal condition is because in your previous post the emerge was looking in to your home directory's "~/.local/lib/python" or when under root privilege it look in "~root/.local/lib/python". This is not a normal gentoo emerge behavior. Also from your previous port of declear -p; emerge --info output it show your PATH variable include ~ari/.local/bin all these indicate there was a decision to direct python use alternative/non-system setting. Do you recall what lead to such setting? maybe try share with us with output of

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python
>>> import sys
>>> print (sys.path)

I have added .local/bin to my $PATH because I run some stuff like bpython as a python module.

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ari@ari-gentoo ~ % python3
Python 3.9.6 (default, Sep  8 2021, 15:10:02)
[GCC 10.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python39.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.9', '/usr/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload', '/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages']

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ari@ari-gentoo ~ % python
Python 3.9.6 (default, Sep  8 2021, 15:10:02)
[GCC 10.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python39.zip', '/usr/lib/python3.9', '/usr/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload', '/home/ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages', '/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages']

removing it from PATH and rebooting did not help, but it worked fine before with that setting so i don't know why it's broken

Thank you for clarify why

I am sure we can agree "computer does not perform magic, all setting must be done somehow". So the "PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT" must be set by a prior act somehow. We also know that "PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/usr" is the reason you currently experiencing abnormal behavior so my immediate thoughts is to correct it by

• set PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/ in /etc/make.conf
• remove ~ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/ directory

The reason to set PORTGE_CONFIGROOT=/ in /etc/make.conf is to overwrite PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT=/usr so at least we have somewhat standard gentoo portage behavior.

The reason to remove ~ari/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/portage/ directory is to ensure portage is not using a outdated/misconfigred code

After you make these change you can try emerge --info again to see if the PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT got overwrite as expected. You shouldn't need to reboot because those changes should not be overwrite by system boot sequence.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just removing the portage dir worked! thanks

[pingtoo]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just removing the portage dir worked! thanks

Wonderful Glad it help. Thank you very mush for the feed back.

Admitting I don't understand why remove portage dir work.

Just a quick reminder, I recall in your previous post you seems also run emerge under root, and you may also want to remove the portage dir under ~root/.local/....

[Ari_archer]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just removing the portage dir worked! thanks

Wonderful Glad it help. Thank you very mush for the feed back.

Admitting I don't understand why remove portage dir work.

Just a quick reminder, I recall in your previous post you seems also run emerge under root, and you may also want to remove the portage dir under ~root/.local/....

/root has some symlinks to my ~ :

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.rw------- root root  7.8 KB Sun Oct  3 21:22:12 2021   .bash_history
lrwxrwxrwx root root   23 B  Sat Aug 28 19:03:27 2021   .bash_profile ⇒ /home/ari/.bash_profile
lrwxrwxrwx root root   17 B  Sat Aug 28 19:04:02 2021   .bashrc ⇒ /home/ari/.bashrc
drwxr-xr-x root root    4 KB Sun Sep 26 17:05:39 2021   .cache
lrwxrwxrwx root root   17 B  Sat Aug 28 19:04:06 2021   .config ⇒ /home/ari/.config
drwx------ root root    4 KB Sat Aug 28 16:32:10 2021   .dbus
lrwxrwxrwx root root   20 B  Sat Aug 28 19:04:32 2021   .gitconfig ⇒ /home/ari/.gitconfig
lrwxrwxrwx root root   20 B  Sat Aug 28 19:04:40 2021   .gtkrc-2.0 ⇒ /home/ari/.gtkrc-2.0
lrwxrwxrwx root root   16 B  Sat Aug 28 19:04:45 2021   .icons ⇒ /home/ari/.icons
.rw-r--r-- root root    0 B  Thu Jul  1 02:19:00 2021   .keep
.rw------- root root   84 B  Wed Sep 15 19:33:09 2021   .lesshst
lrwxrwxrwx root root   16 B  Sat Aug 28 19:04:54 2021   .local ⇒ /home/ari/.local
lrwxrwxrwx root root   18 B  Sat Aug 28 19:04:59 2021   .mozilla ⇒ /home/ari/.mozilla
lrwxrwxrwx root root   17 B  Sat Aug 28 19:05:04 2021   .ngrok2 ⇒ /home/ari/.ngrok2
drwxr-xr-x root root    4 KB Wed Sep 29 02:58:42 2021   .npm
lrwxrwxrwx root root   15 B  Sat Aug 28 19:05:18 2021   .nvim ⇒ /home/ari/.nvim
lrwxrwxrwx root root   20 B  Sat Aug 28 19:05:22 2021   .oh-my-zsh ⇒ /home/ari/.oh-my-zsh
lrwxrwxrwx root root   18 B  Sat Aug 28 19:05:30 2021   .profile ⇒ /home/ari/.profile
lrwxrwxrwx root root   18 B  Sat Aug 28 19:05:39 2021   .scripts ⇒ /home/ari/.scripts
lrwxrwxrwx root root   14 B  Sat Aug 28 19:05:43 2021   .ssh ⇒ /home/ari/.ssh
lrwxrwxrwx root root   22 B  Sat Aug 28 19:05:47 2021   .thunderbird ⇒ /home/ari/.thunderbird
lrwxrwxrwx root root   22 B  Sat Aug 28 19:05:51 2021   .tor-browser ⇒ /home/ari/.tor-browser
lrwxrwxrwx root root   14 B  Sat Aug 28 19:05:54 2021   .vim ⇒ /home/ari/.vim
.rw------- root root 18.3 KB Mon Oct  4 01:51:23 2021   .viminfo
lrwxrwxrwx root root   16 B  Sat Aug 28 19:06:07 2021   .vimrc ⇒ /home/ari/.vimrc
.rw-r--r-- root root  221 B  Sat Sep 11 20:24:45 2021   .wget-hsts
.rw------- root root    0 B  Sat Aug 28 17:31:29 2021   .Xauthority
.rw-r--r-- root root   38 B  Sat Aug 28 17:31:25 2021   .xinitrc
lrwxrwxrwx root root   21 B  Sat Aug 28 19:06:16 2021   .zsh_userrc ⇒ /home/ari/.zsh_userrc
lrwxrwxrwx root root   16 B  Sat Aug 28 19:06:13 2021   .zshrc ⇒ /home/ari/.zshrc
drwxr-xr-x root root    4 KB Sat Sep  4 15:53:54 2021   go