sabeee ~ # emerge eix
Calculating dependencies... done!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 42, in <module>
retval = emerge_main()
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 1555, in emerge_main
myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 282, in action_build
settings, trees, myopts, myparams, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 5492, in backtrack_depgraph
myaction, myfiles, spinner)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 5510, in _backtrack_depgraph
success, favorites = mydepgraph.select_files(myfiles)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 1792, in select_files
return self._resolve(myfavorites)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 1929, in _resolve
self.altlist()
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 3190, in altlist
self._resolve_conflicts()
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 3243, in _resolve_conflicts
if not self._validate_blockers():
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/depgraph.py", line 2969, in _validate_blockers
show_invalid_depstring_notice(pkg, depstr, atoms)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/show_invalid_depstring_notice.py", line 14, in show_invalid_depstring_notice
"\n\n%s\n\n%s\n\n%s\n\n" % (error_msg, parent_node, depstring)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 30: ordinal not in range(128)
sabeee ~ #
I've tried reinstalling portage and python, emerge --sync'd, emerge --metadata'd several times, and various other 'solutions' I found on forums.gentoo.org but no magic bullet.