When I try to check out what's changed with world my emerge barfs. Checking groups of packages or just one works fine, but not "world". I've quickly searched the forums with no result.
I did a regenworld but to no avail. This is what I get: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2096, in ? if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 996, in xcreate if portage.db["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.match(x): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3193, in match mydep=dep_expand(origdep,self) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2629, in dep_expand return prefix+cpv_expand(mydep,mydb)+postfix File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2562, in cpv_expand if (not mydb.cp_list(mykey)) and virts and virts.has_key(mykey): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 3145, in cp_list mystat=os.stat(self.root+"var/db/pkg/"+mysplit[0])[ST_MTIME] TypeError: stat() argument 1 must be (encoded string without NULL bytes), not str Here's emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r5, 2.6.0-test5-mm4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test5-mm4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ ccache version 2.2 [disabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox -ccache userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://www.enodev.com/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib bonobo svga java guile mysql sdl gpm tcpd pam perl python esd imlib oggvorbis motif opengl mozilla ldap cdr X cups nptl scanner usb sse dvd tcltk gtk2 gtk gnome alsa imap libwww maildir sasl ssl -qt -kde" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list