Emerge Failing

Tofurkeymeister · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 4

Emerge won't work, but I'm sure it is something minor:

EXAMPLE:

#emerge gnome

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 28, in ?
import portage
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 55, in ?
import get binpkg
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/getbinpkg.py", line 9, in ?
from output import *
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/output.py", line 166, in?
parse_color_map()
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 140, in parse_color_map
s = shlex.shlex(open(myfile))
IOError: [Errno 28] Not a directory: '/etc/portage/color.map

Besides this Gentoo works great

. It was fun and relatively east to install, even though I was coming from Ubuntu (don't laugh at me

).
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avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

Are you running the latest version of portage(`emerge -ptv portage` should tell you, if you need to update)? If not, update portage first and try again. If that doesn't solve it, please provide your `emerge --info`.

Tofurkeymeister · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 4

I think emerge is corrupted... I tried reinstalling it, using the latest version, but that didn't work. emerge --info replies with the same script...

Maybe it has to do with symbolic links, I don't know. Either way, that is the only thing that is wrong, by internet even works

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avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

If network is working, you could download a stage3-archive for your arch, unpack it over your system and then fix the rest.

Tofurkeymeister · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 4

Could you explain a bit? I know a bit of Linux but I am (really) new to Gentoo. I used the (amazing) install manual to get through the install.
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ziggysquatch · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject:

sounds like you may have updated python recently and broke some libs or something. If you have eselect-python installed you may be able to switch to the old version of python then run python updater or remerge/update portage or run a revdep-rebuild.

to see if you have multiple pythons and the whether eselect-python is installed do:

Tofurkeymeister · n00b Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 4

Got it working. My friend SSH'd in and declared it was a lost cause... so I just reinstalled the stage 3 tarball and portage. 1 hour at most. Thanks btw.
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