emerge kde fails at freetype

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I realize that several posts have been dedicated to this problem, most months ago. But I have been trying for two days to emerge kde and gnome with no luck. I'm getting the same "traceback" as those mentioned above, except mine is hanging at "freetype".

As a noob, I'm sure I've missed the answer in all the posts (and I've searched many). I'm clueless as to how to proceed.

Thanks.

[chevymoon]

sorry, I forgot I started a new thread. By errors I mean ones that just like this :


$ emerge -s portage
!!! Invalid token (not "=") USE
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2, in ?
import os,sys,portage,xpak,string,re,commands,time,threading
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3457, in ?
db["/"]["porttree"]=portagetree("/",virts)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2254, in __init__
self.portroot=settings["PORTDIR"]
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 698, in __getitem__
self.populate()
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 684, in populate
useorder=self["USE_ORDER"]
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 705, in __getitem__
if x.has_key(mykey):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'has_key'