Portage 2.1.4.4 wont emerge :( and blocks everything

[Fratyr]

Back again with my troubles, im desperate in googling for this error...

When i do emerge --sync it says portage has update.
emerge portage says its conflicting with something.

--pretend says it conflicts:
<sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4_rc1 conflicts with bash-3.2_p33 or something like that.

i've already emerged bash to a newer one, sandbox emerged to a newer one, and portage still wont update.. says something about make xml command not found, and a lot of errors in different lines in ebuild, errors in environment.

doing emerge --oneshot --nodeps portage

is giving this error, otherway it blocks bash.

GUYS! how can i fix it?
im new in linux, so please provide me with some commands, what should i try to do, how to update this portage. or maybe to download manually another package?

BUT! links says: command not found. WHY ? :-[ - ]

S.O.S

[bunder]

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Portage & Programming.
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[Carnildo]

You haven't given us enough information to tell what's wrong.

1) Calm down and don't do anything. You're likely to make things worse if you don't know what you're doing.
2) Post the result of "emerge --pretend --verbose portage"
3) Post the result of "emerge --info"

[notHerbert]

Mod Edit: don't try this as it will break portage - tomk

Try this

[Genone]

[notHerbert]

[schachti]

Unmerging bash will kill the system unless any other shell is installed.
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[notHerbert]

Oops my bad

[Genone]

[notHerbert]

[Kuja]

i had that problem on a new installation, copied the old /etc/make.conf
you are probably running ~arch? emerge --info would be useful
anyways i solved it by changing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 to amd64 emerging portage and then changing it back

[Eckos]

I just did this

emerge --nodeps bash
emerge --nodeps portage
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[rhill]

i hit this too with a new install. i think i worked around it by updating to the current stable version of bash, updating portage, and then updating to the ~arch bash.

i think our blocker messages are pretty vague. i know there have been improvements in that area, but they can still be pretty cryptic for the end user and could use some more work. but admittedly i'm an outsider to portage development so i don't know the problem space, which i imagine is difficult.
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[waltercool]

Or a good solution is get a binary and copy manually into the respective folders

Then, reinstall bash
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[schachti]

The proper way to solve is issue is described in this thread.
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[sundialsvc4]

I think that the "amusing" (not!) advice to "unmerge bash" should be killed from the thread before it gets Googled. Someone a few years hence might actually do it.

[tomk]

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads, please follow up to Portage update blocked by bash?!
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