hi all, i have the following problem when emerging sth. for example is this produced by emerge gnuplot: ... >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... >>> media-gfx/gnuplot-4.0-r1 merged.
>>> clean: No packages selected for removal. >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... app-text/sablotron selected: 1.0 protected: 1.0.1 omitted: none >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. >>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting... >>> (Control-C to abort)... >>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 >>> Unmerging app-text/sablotron-1.0... No package files given... Grabbing a set. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3206, in ? unmerge("clean", ["world"]) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2251, in unmerge retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,mysettings,unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2901, in unmerge mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld,cleanup=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6119, in unmerge spawn("bzip2 -d "+self.dbdir+"/environment.bz2",self.settings,free=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1603, in spawn return portage_exec.spawn_bash(mystring,env=env,**keywords) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 48, in spawn_bash return spawn(args,env=env,opt_name=opt_name,**keywords) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 164, in spawn raise str(e)+":\n "+myc+" "+string.join(myargs) execve() arg 3 contains a non-string value: /bin/bash [sablotron-1.0] bash -c bzip2 -d /var/db/pkg/app-text/sablotron-1.0/environment.bz2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3206, in ? unmerge("clean", ["world"]) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2251, in unmerge retval=portage.unmerge(mysplit[0],mysplit[1],portage.root,mysettings,unmerge_action not in ["clean","prune"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2901, in unmerge mylink.unmerge(trimworld=mytrimworld,cleanup=1) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6130, in unmerge a=doebuild(myebuildpath,"prerm",self.myroot,self.settings,cleanup=cleanup,use_cache=0,tree="vartree") File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2611, in doebuild return spawn(EBUILD_SH_BINARY+" "+mydo,mysettings,debug=debug,free=1,logfile=logfile) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1603, in spawn return portage_exec.spawn_bash(mystring,env=env,**keywords) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 48, in spawn_bash return spawn(args,env=env,opt_name=opt_name,**keywords) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.py", line 164, in spawn raise str(e)+":\n "+myc+" "+string.join(myargs) execve() arg 3 contains a non-string value: /bin/bash [sablotron-1.0] bash -c /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh prerm !!! FAILED prerm: 1 localhost marmll # i get the same error message when reemerging sablotron itself. i am very thankful for any kind of tip. martin muellenberg -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list