Portage / emerge broken?

[gafami]

I just emerged the latest portage, and all of a sudden, I can't emerge anything else anymore :\


whenever I try emerging anything, it always stops at md5 src_uri e.g.:

[Shan]

Try a 'rm -rf /usr/portage/distfiles/*' which should clear up any previously downloaded tar.bz2 source files and trying your emerge again.

Also, look in your loggs, see if any errors are being produced (term 12 might have some info as well).
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[gafami]

i did clean up the dir.. and tried again.. no changes.... what logs exactly are you talking about? i looked at /var/log/messages which didn't contain any errors... where else could I look?
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[Shan]

Switch to Vterm 12 (CTRL-ALT-F12) and see if theres anything there (likely not but its worth a shot).

Have you tried to install a binary through portage (eg #emerge -k xyz) and see if it still does the same?

And when you've removed all the source packages in ./distfiles, does portage make an effort to download from a server?
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[gafami]

ok.. switched to console.. and it just showed some messages about usb-devices


tried emerging binaires / emerge -k xyz.. same... and yep.. it downloads fine.. but then stops after src_uri
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[gafami]

ok.. i also checked /var/log/emerge.log.. and it always says:

[Shan]

Can't say about getting more information, perhaps tacking on a -v (-vv?) on the emerge line will cause the log to be more verbose.

just for shytes and giggles, try running the fix-db.pl script in

/usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.pl

and try another emerge.

What happens when you try to emerge sync? Does it fail? and would you mind running an emerge -V (cap v) to give the version you've got running for me?
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