On 2010-09-08, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> After my last update, portage stopped working. Google led me to
> believe it was this bug:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317775
>
> Which was said to be fixed in portage 2.1.9.
>
> So I upgraded from 2.1.8.X to 2.1.9.1, and now portage is even more
> broken. Now I can't even use it to downgrade to the older version of
> portage (which would at least work if you ran it using --quiet).
>
> This is a fine kettle of fish....
>
> alpha grante # emerge --quiet portage
> Traceback (most recent call last):

The manual portage recovery directions served well:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml

After that it took three "emerge portage" commands before portage
would emerge cleanly.

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