I've never done this, but take a look at :

/usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/README.RESCUE

..just trying to be helpful 

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 23:20, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My galeon web browser mysteriously stopped working today.  In an
> attempt to get it to work again, I did the following:
> 
> emerge -euv galeon
> 
> The idea was to recompile galeon and absolutely everything it
> depends upon.
> 
> I had to stop the compilation at one point with a control-c,
> although this was at a point that should have been safe to do this.
> When I then tried to run emerge again, I got this:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 14, in ?
>     import portage
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 10, in ?
>     from select import *
> ImportError: No module named select
> 
> This happens whatever arguments I give to emerge, and obviously
> means that the python select module is for some reason not
> installed.  Python was not the ebuild that I interrupted, so I am
> confused why this should be the case.
> 
> So, I am now completely unable to run emerge to do anything else.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get a working portage
> setup now?
> 
> I am sorry if this is explained in the forum, I am having difficulty
> viewing web pages at the moment due to having no working web
> browser (I have wget though!).
> 
> Regards,
> Andy.
> 
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