Problems trying to update.

[ventricle]

I'm trying to emerge -up system, and this is what I get.

velocity root # emerge -up system

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating system dependencies -Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2517, in ?
if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1135, in xcreate
if not self.create(myk):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 825, in create
if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1037, in select_dep
if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 825, in create
if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1037, in select_dep
if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 825, in create
if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1037, in select_dep
if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 825, in create
if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1037, in select_dep
if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 825, in create
if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1037, in select_dep
if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 825, in create
if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 962, in select_dep
myeb=portage.portdb.xmatch("bestmatch-visible",x)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4699, in xmatch
myval=best(self.xmatch("match-visible",None,mydep,mykey))
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4710, in xmatch
myval=match_from_list(mydep,self.xmatch("list-visible",None,mydep,mykey))
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4696, in xmatch
myval=self.gvisible(self.visible(self.cp_list(mykey)))
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4791, in gvisible
myaux=db["/"]["porttree"].dbapi.aux_get(mycpv, ["KEYWORDS"])
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4533, in aux_get
if doregen or not self.eclassdb.is_current(cat,pkg,self.auxdb[cat][pkg]["INHERITED"].split( )):
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4378, in is_current
self.setup_package(cat, pkg)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4355, in setup_package
self.packages[cat] = self.dbmodule(self.cachedir, cat+"-eclass", [], uid, portage_gid)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_db_cpickle.py", line 23, in __init__
self.db = mypickle.load()
cPickle.UnpicklingError: unpickling stack underflow
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[ercxy]

The solution is this;
remove /var/cache/deb/mtimedb


https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-486001-highlight-unpickling+stack+underflow.html
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[kallamej]

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads in favour of the above mentioned thread.
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