Comments on Portato 0.10

[Fitzcarraldo]

Hi there Necoro. I'll add any comments on version 0.10 of Portato to this thread.

Here are my first observations. These are all constructive comments and are not to be taken as criticism. The points mentioned below are not show-stoppers, but I think the changes I suggest would make the application more user-friendly and more professional-looking. The specific packages mentioned below are just examples, i.e. the comments pertain to any package.

1. I merged taglib to upgrade from taglib-1.4-r1 to taglib-1.5 but the green 'LED' next to 1.4-r1 in the Versions column stayed against 1.4-r1 even though the merge had completed successfully and version 1.5 is now installed instead of version 1.4-r1. This is somewhat confusing and I recommend that Portato automatically moves the green 'LED' to the version that has just been installed.

2. I merged kid3-0.10 (previously, no version of the package was installed on my PC). The merge was successful but no green 'LED' appeared next to 0.10 in the Versions column to indicate that the package had been installed. I recommend that Portato automatically displays a green 'LED' against the version of a package that has just been installed.

3. Immediately following the merge described under item 2 above, I clicked on the Category "ALL". In the Packages column "kid3" was no longer highlighted, although in the Versions column "0.10" was still highlighted and the descriptions box in the bottom left hand corner of the Portato window still pertained to media-sound/kid3. I suggest either of the following changes to the functionality:
a) the package should remain highlighted in the Packages column in such cases, until the user selects a different package;
or, alternatively,
b) if "ALL" is selected in the Category column and no package is shown as selected in the Packages column then the Version column should be empty and so should the descriptions box in the lower left hand corner of the Portato window.

[Necoro]

Thanks for your comments

Yes - you are right for all of them. I'll see what I can do for them. Actually the overall list handling etc. in Portato is rather complicated. But nevertheless I hope I can implement this.

If you want to do me a favor: Create one (or more) issues at portato's issue tracker:
http://portato.origo.ethz.ch/issues - this makes it easier for me to keep them in mind. (Unfortunatly you'll have to create an account )

[Fitzcarraldo]

Hi Necoro,

I successfully completed merging the latest version of a package (from coreutils-6.10-r1 to coreutils-6.11) and then clicked on ALL in the Categories column. I then slowly started clicking on those packages in the Packages column with a green 'LED' beside them, to see if any had newer versions. When I clicked on the Packages column header the column became all white and a bug message window popped up:

Bug Detected

A programming error has been detected
during the execution of this program.

It probably isn't fatal, but should be reported
to the developers nonetheless.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/portato/gui/windows/main.py", line 1204, in cb_pkg_list_header_clicked
self.fill_pkg_store(self.pkgList.get_model(), self.selCatName)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/portato/gui/windows/main.py", line 932, in fill_pkg_store
for cat, pkg, is_inst in self.db.get_cat(name, self.sortPkgListByName):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/portato/gui/utils.py", line 207, in get_pkgs
if pkg[2]:
AttributeError: PkgData instance has no attribute '__getitem__'

Portato version: 0.10
Used backend: Portage 2.1.5_rc6
pygtk: 2.12.1 (using GTK+: 2.12.7)
pygobject: 2.14.1 (using GLib: 2.14.6)
lxml: 1.3.6.0

[Fitzcarraldo]

Hi Necoro,
A couple more problems to report:

1. I tried to merge the latest version of accel-manager (1.4.4). Whilst the merge was in progress I moved the cursor outside the Portato window and Portato crashed. No error windows popped up.

EDIT: I've just merged Dillo and moved the mouse cursor outside the Portato window and this time Portato did not crash, so perhaps it was purely a coincidence that Portato crashed when I moved the mouse outside the window during the previous merge.

2. I then re-launched Portato and again selected accel-manager-1.4.4 for merging and executed the merge. This time I did not move the mouse and the merge completed successfully. However, as mentioned in my first post, the green 'LED' didn't move to the merged version 1.4.4 in the Versions column so, in order to try and refresh the Versions column manually, I selected another package -- and the versions of that package were displayed in the Versions column -- and then I reselected accel-manager in the Packages column. But the green 'LED' stayed against the earlier version of accel-manager, even though eix confirmed that 1.4.4 was now installed. I then clicked on a few other packages and back to accel-manager to see if the green 'LED' would move, but a bug message window popped up with the following message:

Bug Detected

A programming error has been detected
during the execution of this program.

It probably isn't fatal, but should be reported
to the developers nonetheless.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/portato/gui/windows/main.py", line 1198, in cb_pkg_list_selection
self.show_package(cp, self.queue)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/portato/gui/windows/main.py", line 825, in show_package
self.packageTable.update(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/portato/gui/windows/main.py", line 152, in update
self.fill_version_list()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/portato/gui/windows/main.py", line 416, in fill_version_list
best_version = system.find_best_match(self.packages[0].get_cp(), only_installed = (self.instPackages != [])).get_version()
IndexError: list index out of range

Portato version: 0.10
Used backend: Portage 2.1.5_rc6
pygtk: 2.12.1 (using GTK+: 2.12.7)
pygobject: 2.14.1 (using GLib: 2.14.6)
lxml: 1.3.6.0

[Necoro]

Thanks for pointing these things out

Regarding the first post: This was a small bug: Fixed now in bzr...

Regarding the second - point one: Sounds strange with the crash. I hope this really was just coincidence...

Point two: Hmm - the not moving version "LED". Is this the only package where this happens or did you see it also elsewhere?
And the exception: This exception happens, if you click on a package which though it has a directory in the tree does not have ebuilds in it. Can you see if this is really the case for the package, where the error happened?

[Fitzcarraldo]

In answer to your question about the not-moving version 'LED', Necoro, so far I've only merged the five packages I mentioned in my previous posts in this thread, and this is the first time I have noticed this particular problem occurring. The previous version of accel-manager (I think it was 1.4.1) that was installed on my PC prior to my merging version 1.4.4 is no longer in the SL overlay.

[Fitzcarraldo]

I've got another couple of problems, I'm afraid.

The first of these happens after I have launched Portato a few times. Let's say very roughly on the fifth launch. After I type in the root password as prompted, the little Portato splash screen appears but then disappears quickly, and Portato crashes without any message window appearing. I have tried running Portato from the command line to see what messages are displayed and, when it crashes this way a very large amount of text appears in the Terminal window -- so much that the command I entered to run Portato is not in the scrollable Konsole window anymore. Here's the very last bit of text at the bottom of the Terminal window from one of these crashes, in case it gives you a clue what's happening:

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2ab890b63000-2ab890c63000 ---p 00009000 08:05 1737562                    /usr/lib/libSM.so.6.0.0
2
ab890c63000-2ab890c64000 rw-p 00009000 08:05 1737562                    /usr/lib/libSM.so.6.0.0
2ab890c64000-2ab890c7a000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 1737405                    /usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0
2ab890c7a000-2ab890d7a000 ---p 00016000 08:05 1737405
            /usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0
2ab890d7a000-2ab890d7b000 rw-p 00016000 08:05 1737405                    /usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0
2ab890d7b000-2ab890d7f000 rw-p 2ab890d7b000 00:00 0
2ab890d7f000-2ab890dc5000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 5348410
      /lib/libncurses.so.5.6
2ab890dc5000-2ab890fc5000 ---p 00046000 08:05 5348410                    /lib/libncurses.so.5.6
2ab890fc5000-2ab890fd2000 r--p 00046000 08:05 5348410                    /lib/libncurses.so.5.6
2ab890fd2000-2ab890fd4000 rw-p 000
53000 08:05 5348410                    /lib/libncurses.so.5.6
2ab890fd4000-2ab890fd5000 rw-p 2ab890fd4000 00:00 0
2ab890fd5000-2ab890fde000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 4895412                    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtksourceview2.so
2ab890fde000-2ab
8911de000 ---p 00009000 08:05 4895412                    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtksourceview2.so
2ab8911de000-2ab8911df000 r--p 00009000 08:05 4895412                    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtksourceview2.so
2ab8911df000-2ab8911e10
00 rw-p 0000a000 08:05 4895412                    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtksourceview2.so
2ab8911e1000-2ab8911e7000 r--p 00000000 08:05 130576                     /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/glib20.mo
2ab89121b000-2ab891248000 r-xp 0000
0000 08:05 5543921                    /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-2.0.so.0.0.0
2ab891248000-2ab891447000 ---p 0002d000 08:05 5543921                    /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-2.0.so.0.0.0
2ab891447000-2ab891448000 r--p 0002c000 08:05 5543921
       /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-2.0.so.0.0.0
2ab891448000-2ab891449000 rw-p 0002d000 08:05 5543921                    /usr/lib/libgtksourceview-2.0.so.0.0.0
2ab891449000-2ab895284000 r--p 00000000 08:05 3915125                    /usr/share/icons/Tango/i
con-theme.cache
2ab895284000-2ab895bcd000 r--p 00000000 08:05 3915109                    /usr/share/icons/gnome/icon-theme.cache
2ab895bcd000-2ab895ff5000 r--p 00000000 08:05 4010786                    /usr/share/icons/hicolor/icon-theme.cache
2ab895ff500
0-2ab895ffe000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 5383821                    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/parsers/pyexpat.so
2ab895ffe000-2ab8961fe000 ---p 00009000 08:05 5383821                    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/parsers/pyexpat.s
o
2ab8961fe000-2ab8961ff000 r--p 00009000 08:05 5383821                    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/parsers/pyexpat.so
2ab8961ff000-2ab896201000 rw-p 0000a000 08:05 5383821                    /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_xmlplus/pars
ers/pyexpat.so
2ab896201000-2ab896202000 r--p 00000000 08:05 5544776                    /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm
2ab896202000-2ab896208000 r--p 00000000 08:05 5543882                    /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gtksourceview-2.0.mo
2ab89623
b000-2ab896258000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 4898750                    /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
2ab896258000-2ab896458000 ---p 0001d000 08:05 4898750                    /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
2ab896458000-2ab89645a000 r--p 0001d000 08:05 4898750
          /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
2ab89645a000-2ab89645b000 rw-p 0001f000 08:05 4898750                    /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
7fff2689e000-7fff268cd000 rw-p 7fff2689e000 00:00 0                      [stack]
ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-x
p 00000000 00:00 0                  [vdso]
  

Also, on one occasion when I launched Portato from a Terminal window to investigate the above problem, Portato launched OK but, as soon as I moved the mouse over 'File' so that I could select 'Quit' from the pull-down menu, Portato crashed. (I had not clicked on File, though).

Do you think these crashes, and the crash I mentioned in an earlier post, could be related?

[Necoro]

EDIT: Try to first recompile "libglade" - I guess this is the problem

Try to recompile some libs:

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emerge -1av glib gtk+ python pygobject pygtk vte

You might also try to include debug information:

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FEATURES="nostrip" CFLAGS="-O0 -ggdb -pipe -march=prescott" emerge -1av ...

(of course replace "prescott" by your architecture)

Then you can do ulimit -c 10000000 in your shell prior launching portato from that shell. When it crashes, it'll create a core. You than can do gdb python $CORE (whereby $CORE is the name of the created core (in most cases "core" or "core.$PID")). When gdb is finished with loading, you can type bt, which will print you a backtrace. You might want to post the top of this. Then I can try to find out, what went wrong (though I can't guarantee anything)

[Fitzcarraldo]

Hi Necoro,

I had a brief chance a couple of days ago to look again at the crashing problem (although I cannot merge packages where I'm staying this week). I recompiled libglade as you suggested but it did not solve the problem. The first time I launched Portato from Konsole. I then moved the mouse cursor and, as soon as it reached the top boundary of the window (as far as I could tell), Portato crashed. However the next couple of times I launched Portato it did not crash. The text displayed in the Terminal window when Portato crashed was less than before I recompiled libglade; the entire text is given below in case it is of use:

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* Starting Portato v. 0.10 (portato:65)
* Listener has not been started. (plistener.py:88)
* Setting Portage System (__init__.py:59)
* Setting Portage System (__init__.py:59)
* Plugin '/usr/share/portato/plugins/notify.xml' loaded. (plugin.py:397)
* Loading session from '/root/.portato/gtk_session.cfg'. (session.py:47)
* Loading [('version', 'session')] with values ['1']. (session.py:76)
* Loading [('gtksessionversion', 'session')] with values ['1']. (session.py:76)
* Loading [('width', 'window'), ('height', 'window')] with values ['1440', '807']. (session.py:76)
* Loading [('vpanedpos', 'window'), ('hpanedpos', 'window')] with values ['372', '528']. (session.py:76)
* Loading [('catsel', 'window')] with values ['app-text']. (session.py:76)
* Loading [('pkgsel', 'window')] with values ['acroread']. (session.py:76)
* Loading [(u'Notify', 'plugins')] with values ['']. (session.py:76)
* Saving [('version', 'session')] with values [1] (session.py:90)
* Saving [('gtksessionversion', 'session')] with values [1] (session.py:90)
* Saving [('width', 'window'), ('height', 'window')] with values (1440, 807) (session.py:90)
* Saving [('vpanedpos', 'window'), ('hpanedpos', 'window')] with values [372, 528] (session.py:90)
* Saving [('catsel', 'window')] with values ['app-text'] (session.py:90)
* Saving [('pkgsel', 'window')] with values ['bact'] (session.py:90)
* Saving [(u'Notify', 'plugins')] with values [''] (session.py:90)
localhost bill # portato
* Starting Portato v. 0.10 (portato:65)
* Listener has not been started. (plistener.py:88)
* Setting Portage System (__init__.py:59)
* Setting Portage System (__init__.py:59)
* Plugin '/usr/share/portato/plugins/notify.xml' loaded. (plugin.py:397)
* Loading session from '/root/.portato/gtk_session.cfg'. (session.py:47)
* Loading [('version', 'session')] with values ['1']. (session.py:76)
* Loading [('gtksessionversion', 'session')] with values ['1']. (session.py:76)
* Loading [('width', 'window'), ('height', 'window')] with values ['1440', '807']. (session.py:76)
* Loading [('vpanedpos', 'window'), ('hpanedpos', 'window')] with values ['372', '528']. (session.py:76)
* Loading [('catsel', 'window')] with values ['app-text']. (session.py:76)
* Loading [('pkgsel', 'window')] with values ['bact']. (session.py:76)
* Loading [(u'Notify', 'plugins')] with values ['']. (session.py:76)
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: double free or corruption (out): 0x0000000003365d40 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0x2b721b9b3a3d]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x76)[0x2b721b9b5066]
/usr/lib/libcairo.so.2[0x2b721f1a19be]
/usr/lib/libcairo.so.2[0x2b721f1cb085]
/usr/lib/libcairo.so.2[0x2b721f198bd8]
/usr/lib/libcairo.so.2[0x2b721f19bced]
/usr/lib/libcairo.so.2[0x2b721f19d19f]
/usr/lib/libcairo.so.2[0x2b721f19d4e1]
/usr/lib/libcairo.so.2[0x2b721f19a872]
/usr/lib/libcairo.so.2[0x2b721f18260b]
/usr/lib/libcairo.so.2(cairo_stroke+0x22)[0x2b721f17adea]
/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libclearlooks.so[0x2b7223087aef]
/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libclearlooks.so[0x2b72230756b3]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e22e120]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e22e40b]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e1f471d]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x11a)[0x2b721d40c416]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0[0x2b721d4178b2]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x557)[0x2b721d4182fd]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x83)[0x2b721d4186f7]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e2f6fae]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_container_propagate_expose+0x18b)[0x2b721e165e8b]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e247fb5]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e16689b]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e24a3e1]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e1f471d]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x11a)[0x2b721d40c416]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0[0x2b721d4178b2]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x557)[0x2b721d4182fd]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x83)[0x2b721d4186f7]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e2f6fae]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_container_propagate_expose+0x18b)[0x2b721e165e8b]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e12b3d0]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e16689b]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e1f471d]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x11a)[0x2b721d40c416]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0[0x2b721d4178b2]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x557)[0x2b721d4182fd]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x83)[0x2b721d4186f7]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e2f6fae]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_container_propagate_expose+0x18b)[0x2b721e165e8b]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e1b1fba]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e16689b]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e1b2eef]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e1f471d]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x11a)[0x2b721d40c416]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0[0x2b721d4178b2]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x557)[0x2b721d4182fd]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x83)[0x2b721d4186f7]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e2f6fae]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_container_propagate_expose+0x18b)[0x2b721e165e8b]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e21660f]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e16689b]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e218de6]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e1f471d]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x11a)[0x2b721d40c416]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0[0x2b721d4178b2]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x557)[0x2b721d4182fd]
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x83)[0x2b721d4186f7]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e2f6fae]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_container_propagate_expose+0x18b)[0x2b721e165e8b]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e12b3d0]
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0[0x2b721e16689b]
======= Memory map: ========
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00600000-00601000 r--p 00000000 08:05 5317496                            /usr/bin/python2.5
00601000-00602000 rw-p 00001000 08:05 5317496                            /usr/bin/python2.5
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2b721b0d4000-2b721b157000 rw-p 2b721b0d4000 00:00 0
2b721b157000-2b721b192000 r--p 00000000 08:05 2420367                    /usr/lib/locale/en_GB.utf8/LC_CTYPE
2b721b192000-2b721b199000 r--s 00000000 08:05 1737209                    /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
2b721b199000-2b721b19a000 r--p 0001b000 08:05 5184923                    /lib/ld-2.5.so
2b721b19a000-2b721b19b000 rw-p 0001c000 08:05 5184923                    /lib/ld-2.5.so
2b721b19b000-2b721b297000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 5317497                    /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so.1.0
2b721b297000-2b721b496000 ---p 000fc000 08:05 5317497                    /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so.1.0
2b721b496000-2b721b497000 r--p 000fb000 08:05 5317497                    /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so.1.0
2b721b497000-2b721b4ca000 rw-p 000fc000 08:05 5317497                    /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so.1.0
2b721b4ca000-2b721b4d2000 rw-p 2b721b4ca000 00:00 0
2b721b4d2000-2b721b4e7000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 5185032                    /lib/libpthread-2.5.so
2b721b4e7000-2b721b5e6000 ---p 00015000 08:05 5185032                    /lib/libpthread-2.5.so
2b721b5e6000-2b721b5e7000 r--p 00014000 08:05 5185032                    /lib/libpthread-2.5.so
2b721b5e7000-2b721b5e8000 rw-p 00015000 08:05 5185032                    /lib/libpthread-2.5.so
2b721b5e8000-2b721b5ec000 rw-p 2b721b5e8000 00:00 0
2b721b5ec000-2b721b5ee000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 5184972                    /lib/libdl-2.5.so
2b721b5ee000-2b721b6ee000 ---p 00002000 08:05 5184972                    /lib/libdl-2.5.so
2b721b6ee000-2b721b6ef000 r--p 00002000 08:05 5184972                    /lib/libdl-2.5.so
2b721b6ef000-2b721b6f0000 rw-p 00003000 08:05 5184972                    /lib/libdl-2.5.so
2b721b6f0000-2b721b6f1000 rw-p 2b721b6f0000 00:00 0
2b721b6f1000-2b721b6f3000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 5185066                    /lib/libutil-2.5.so
2b721b6f3000-2b721b7f2000 ---p 00002000 08:05 5185066                    /lib/libutil-2.5.so
2b721b7f2000-2b721b7f3000 r--p 00001000 08:05 5185066                    /lib/libutil-2.5.so
2b721b7f3000-2b721b7f4000 rw-p 00002000 08:05 5185066                    /lib/libutil-2.5.so
2b721b7f4000-2b721b848000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 5184996                    /lib/libm-2.5.so
2b721b848000-2b721b947000 ---p 00054000 08:05 5184996                    /lib/libm-2.5.so
2b721b947000-2b721b948000 r--p 00053000 08:05 5184996                    /lib/libm-2.5.so
2b721b948000-2b721b949000 rw-p 00054000 08:05 5184996                    /lib/libm-2.5.so
2b721b949000-2b721ba7a000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 5184952                    /lib/libc-2.5.so
2b721ba7a000-2b721bb7a000 ---p 00131000 08:05 5184952                    /lib/libc-2.5.so
2b721bb7a000-2b721bb7e000 r--p 00131000 08:05 5184952                    /lib/libc-2.5.so
2b721bb7e000-2b721bb7f000 rw-p 00135000 08:05 5184952                    /lib/libc-2.5.so
2b721bb7f000-2b721bb86000 rw-p 2b721bb7f000 00:00 0
2b721bbb8000-2b721bbf9000 rw-p 2b721bbb8000 00:00 0
2b721bbf9000-2b721bbfc000 r-xp 00000000 08:05 5347873                    /usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload/select.so
2b721bbfc000-2b721bdfb000 ---p 00003000 08:05 5347873                    /usr/lib/python2Aborted

Any ideas from this latest text? Thanks in advance.

I may be able to try your other suggests this coming weekend when I'm back at home.

[Fitzcarraldo]

OK, as re-merging libglade did not stop the crashes, I have now had a chance to try your second suggestion (emerge -1av glib gtk+ python pygobject pygtk vte) and so far have not had a crash. However, I'm reluctant to use Portato further until I can find out how to enable the --oneshot option, as I don't want all the packages I merge going into my world file. I cannot see how to enable the --oneshot option in Portato. I've looked in File > Preferences and cannot see it there, and cannot see it in any of the tabbed windows either. Would you kindly tell me how to enable --oneshot? Thanks.