On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 16.16.54 CEST, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Space Cake <spaceca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 16.02.15 CEST, Michael Mol wrote:
>>> 2011/8/31 Space Cake <spaceca...@gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> For a few days my routine upgrades failing at portage with the following
>>>> message. Do you have any idea what does it means?
>>>>
>>>> File
>>>> "/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.11/image/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/tests/runTests",
>>>> line 21, in <module>
>>>> os.environ["PORTAGE_GRPNAME"] = grp.getgrgid(os.getgid()).gr_name
>>>> KeyError: 'getgrgid(): gid not found: 0'
>>>>
>>>> I've tried to google this, but nothing has found
>>>
>>> A new portage went stable a few days ago. You might try explicitly
>>> upgrading portage, and then continuing.
>>
>> Yes, this is what I've tried, but it is failed with the message above
>
> By the error, it looks like the code expected to be run as gid 0, but wasn't.
>
> I assume you ran etc-update?
>
> What about a downgrade? Could you downgrade portage to the last stable
> version (not sure what that is), and then upgrade it again? (I'd wait
> for someone else to chime in before you do this. It may be a riskier
> move than is obvious. I'm not sure.)
Yes, etc-update is also routine for me and I'm on stable
[U] sys-apps/portage
Available versions: [M]2.1.6.7 2.1.6.13 2.1.9.42 2.1.10.3
2.1.10.11 ~*2.2.0_alpha51 **9999 {build doc epydoc +ipc (+)less
linguas_pl python2 python3 selinux}
Installed versions: 2.1.10.3(18.02.13 2011-07-18)(ipc less -build
-doc -epydoc -linguas_pl -python2 -python3 -selinux)
Homepage:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml
Description: Portage is the package management and
distribution sys
