"emerge -Dupd world" Failure

[drake22]

This are the last few lines when i start this line of code.

emerge -Dupd world

I don't know what i have messed up. Can anybody help me?
Mfg,
Steph

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Parent: ebuild / net-im/licq-1.2.7 nomerge
Depstring: kde? ( >=kde-base/kdelibs-3.0 ) ssl? ( >=dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6 ) qt?
( >=x11-libs/qt-3.0.0 ) ncurses? ( sys-libs/ncurses ) kde? ( >=kde-base/kdelibs
-3.0 )
Candidates: ['>=kde-base/kdelibs-3.0', 'sys-libs/ncurses', '>=dev-libs/openssl-0
.9.6', '>=x11-libs/qt-3.0.0']
ebuild: kde-base/kdelibs-3.2.1
binpkg: None
ebuild: sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r1
binpkg: None
ebuild: dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7d
binpkg: None
ebuild: x11-libs/qt-3.3.1-r1
binpkg: None
Exiting... ebuild / net-im/licq-1.2.7 nomerge
Exiting... ebuild / x11-themes/licq-themes-0.0.1 nomerge
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2517, in ?
if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1109, in xcreate
myeb=portage.portdb.xmatch("bestmatch-visible",mydep)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4690, in xmatch
myval=best(self.xmatch("match-visible",None,mydep,mykey))
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3469, in best
if pkgcmp(p1,p2)>0:
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2833, in pkgcmp
mycmp=vercmp(pkg1[1],pkg2[1])
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2819, in vercmp
cmp2=relparse(val2[x])
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2507, in relparse
number=string.atof(mynewver[0])
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/string.py", line 205, in atof
return _float(s)
ValueError: invalid literal for float(): .0b

[diastelo]

Have you updated your copy of portage lately?

Is that ebuild the only one causing you problems? What happens if you delete it and rerun "emerge sync"?

[darkless]

I'm getting the same error when trying to run 'eupdatedb'.

[Xero]

I had the same problem and went into my world file, looked at the last thing shown in emerge -uDdp world (which was logjam in my case, licq-themes in yours) and then figured the thing under it was the cause. It turns out netwatch is causing it in my case. The ebuild name is netwatch-1.0b_pre3.ebuild and apparently portage doesn't like the .0b. I removed it and everything is fine. Not sure why this is happening.

[Genone]

bug 47847