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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:45 pm    Post subject: lost all portage functionality [SOLVED] Reply with quote

After doing an emerge --depclean this morning, the emerge program no longer functions. No matter what I type, whether it be "#emerge --info", "#emerge --sync" nothing happens. There is no error message . . . nothing. The binary for emerge still exists on the system and qlist shows that portage is still installed, but apparently it was hosed somehow.

Can I fix this by downloading and unpacking a portage snapshot in the root directory as is done in the original installation of Gentoo?

EDIT: I don't think a new portage snapshot will fix the problem. I downloaded a snapshot and unpacked it in a temporary directory and realized that everything in the portage snapshot goes into /usr/portage If portage doesn't work at all, this is not going to help.

So can I download an unpack a stage 3 tarball and fix the problem. This seems like it will have a great possibility of messing up a bunch of other things. Any ideas?


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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

you probably unmerged the active python during the depclean. That was recently fixed in portage this past week.

Code:
eselect python list
eselect python set <whatever>


should fix it.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's it! Thank you so much. I had just begun to figure out that it was probably a Python issue, but your post cut right to the problem and fixed it.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And run python-updater!
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads, please see Python 2.7 upgrade?
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