Have I f****d up my emerge?

[Peter]

I ran

Code:
emerge portmap


and got a message telling me a few configs needed updates... I then followed instructions and ran

Code:
emerge --help config


I got the impression from this help that it might help setting the variable CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK in /etc/make.conf to something like ="/etc/wget /et/rc.conf". I don't remember exactly what the help told me to set this variable too because now I cant get portage running anymore. I do believe I have set it to the exact thing that the example in the help told me to. After that whwnever i run emerge I get this error message:

Quote:
bash-2.05a# emerge
!!! Invalid token (not "=") options
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 6, in ?
import output
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/output.py", line 4, in ?
import portage;
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3328, in ?
db["/"]["porttree"]=portagetree("/",virts)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2458, in __init__
self.portroot=settings["PORTDIR"]
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 675, in __getitem__
self.populate()
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 664, in populate
useorder=self["USE_ORDER"]
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 682, in __getitem__
if x.has_key(mykey):
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'has_key'
bash-2.05a#


Offcource I removed this line I added to my make.conf but it didn't help me much. Perhaps this error didn't have anything to do with me editing this file then? Can anyone please help me because I would really hate to haveto reinstall my system again, I just got it working almost as I wanted to. Btw I am running the stage2 version of the 1.2 Gentoo build.

I really appreciate all help on this guys.

Peter

[klieber]

Are you able to rsync? If so, try:

[TheWart]

addtionally, in /usr/portage, i belive there is a file telling you how to get emerge back up, even after all but hosing it.
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On the box it said it was designed for Win XP or better, so why won't it work with Linux?