Portage curruptness problem

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Portage curruptness problem
\ Alex Schuster (6 Jul 2007)
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Subject:	Portage curruptness problem
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Alex Schuster
Date:	6 Jul 2007

Hi there,

I have a problem with portage being unable to unmerge some old packages. No
idea what do do about this. I already remerged portage, tried
emerge --emtadata and emerge --regen. Maybe someone of you knows what to
do? I would not like to dig into the portage source code...

root@zone:~ emerge -atv --clean

>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:

net-firewall/iptables
selected: 1.2.7a-r3
protected: 1.3.5-r4
omitted: none

>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
>>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.

Would you like to unmerge these packages? [Yes/No]
>>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting...
>>> (Control-C to abort)...
>>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1
>>> Unmerging net-firewall/iptables-1.2.7a-r3...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5547, in ?
retval = emerge_main()
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5528, in emerge_main
mtimedb["ldpath"]):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3608, in unmerge
vartree=vartree, ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3991, in unmerge
ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6979, in unmerge
self.settings, 0, 0, self.vartree.dbapi)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3013, in doebuild_environment
mysettings.setcpv(mycpv, use_cache=use_cache, mydb=mydbapi)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1683, in setcpv
slot, iuse = mydb.aux_get(self.mycpv, ["SLOT", "IUSE"])
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5353, in aux_get
raise KeyError(mycpv)
KeyError: 'sys-apps/iptables-1.2.7a-r3'

root@zone:~ emerge -Ca \<app-misc/mc-4.6

>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:

app-misc/mc
selected: 4.5.55-r5
protected: none
omitted: 4.6.1-r3

>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
>>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.

Would you like to unmerge these packages? [Yes/No]
>>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting...
>>> (Control-C to abort)...
>>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1
>>> Unmerging app-misc/mc-4.5.55-r5...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5547, in ?
retval = emerge_main()
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5528, in emerge_main
mtimedb["ldpath"]):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3608, in unmerge
vartree=vartree, ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3991, in unmerge
ldpath_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6979, in unmerge
self.settings, 0, 0, self.vartree.dbapi)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3013, in doebuild_environment
mysettings.setcpv(mycpv, use_cache=use_cache, mydb=mydbapi)
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 1683, in setcpv
slot, iuse = mydb.aux_get(self.mycpv, ["SLOT", "IUSE"])
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5353, in aux_get
raise KeyError(mycpv)
KeyError: 'gnome-extra/mc-4.5.55-r5'

Alex
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