Hello, It seems that my portage or python installation or the combination thereof has become borked. Whenever I run a portage-related program (emerge, eclean, portageq, etc) I get segfaults. Due to these being scripts, gdb is not of much help... I am able to start python normally and get it to add numbers so python is not completely hosed. But I lack another python program of substance to test whats wrong. The last thing I emerged successfully was iptables and it seems unlikely that they had an influence on python/portage.
... Thinking again I have rdiff-backup around. Testing that shows a small backup to go ok and a largish backup to fail with sigsegv. The box as such is busy enough, memorywise, and survives parallel kernel compiles and untars fine. So, I guess I have two questions: One, do anyone have a reasonable opinion of what is wrong? Failing that, two: How do I reestablish python and/or portage with the least pain? I have both in my PKGDIR, can I 'just' untar them on top of the existing installation? Thanks, Rasmus -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
