Crash during portage update [Solved]

[LordBernhard]

Hi!

My machine crashed during upgrading portage... on next reboot emerge didn't work anymore so I reinstalled portage through equo... it worked, BUT:

when I now try to emerge a package I get this:

Calculating dependencies /Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 9205, in <module>
retval = emerge_main()
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 9199, in emerge_main
myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 8460, in action_build
retval, favorites = mydepgraph.select_files(myfiles)
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2984, in select_files
if not self._create_graph():
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2264, in _create_graph
allow_unsatisfied=allow_unsatisfied):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2531, in _add_pkg_deps
dep_string, myuse=myuse, parent=pkg, strict=strict)
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3030, in _select_atoms_highest_available
myroot=root, trees=trees)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 6283, in dep_check
use_binaries=use_binaries, myroot=myroot, trees=trees)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 5919, in _expand_new_virtuals
matches = portdb.match(match_atom)
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5577, in match
pkg, existing = self._depgraph._select_package(self._root, atom)
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3107, in _select_pkg_highest_available
ret = self._select_pkg_highest_available_imp(root, atom, onlydeps=onlydeps)
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3121, in _select_pkg_highest_available_imp
atom = portage_dep.Atom(atom)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_dep.py", line 288, in __init__
if not isvalidatom(s, allow_blockers=True):
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_dep.py", line 431, in isvalidatom
if _invalid_atom_chars_regexp.search(atom):
TypeError: expected string or buffer

Please... I need help

Bernhard

[deadfool]

i had something similar. then i did the manual portage fix and broke it even worse

[xlnagla]

well, the link to that manual portage fix that killed deadfool is here. I still think asking v00d00 to add portage to his entropy repository might work if you first use equo to remove all traces of your dead portage.

~xlnagla

[deadfool]

my problem was some overlay was corrupted. i resynced for a 2nd time and it worked :\

[LordBernhard]

thx for your help it's partly solved for now (atm I'm using emergency portage (installed by the script from the gentoo wiki)) .. I'll try later replacing the original portage files with the one from the emergency... hope it'll work

I think I can mark this bug as closed