Hello, Gentooers, I recently had occasion to do "eselect profile list", which responded with:
!!! Error: Failed to get a list of valid profiles Everything else about portage appears to be working correctly, including updates. Which would seem to indicate that portage can actually find and use my profile. Commands like "eselect news list" generate the expected output. ls -l /etc/portage/make.profile gives lrwxrwxr-x 1 root portage 67 Sep 16 2024 make.profile -> ../../var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop All of the elements of that path exist and are readable by root and portage. The output of "portageq get_repo_path /" is /var/db/repos/gentoo which exists and is in good enough condition to support portage updates. The output of "portageq repos_config /" is [DEFAULT] auto-sync = yes main-repo = gentoo strict-misc-digests = true sync-allow-hardlinks = true sync-openpgp-key-refresh = true sync-rcu = false volatile = true [crossdev] auto-sync = no location = /var/db/repos/portage-crossdev masters = gentoo priority = 10 strict-misc-digests = true sync-allow-hardlinks = true sync-openpgp-key-refresh = true sync-rcu = false volatile = false [gentoo] auto-sync = yes location = /var/db/repos/gentoo masters = priority = -1000 strict-misc-digests = true sync-allow-hardlinks = true sync-openpgp-key-path = /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc sync-openpgp-key-refresh = true sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-count = 40 sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-delay-exp-base = 2 sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-delay-max = 60 sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-delay-mult = 4 sync-openpgp-key-refresh-retry-overall-timeout = 1200 sync-openpgp-keyserver = hkps://keys.gentoo.org sync-rcu = false sync-type = git sync-uri = https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/repo/sync/gentoo.git volatile = false sync-git-verify-commit-signature = yes [guru] auto-sync = yes location = /var/db/repos/guru masters = gentoo strict-misc-digests = true sync-allow-hardlinks = true sync-depth = 1 sync-openpgp-key-refresh = true sync-rcu = false sync-type = git sync-uri = https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/repo/proj/guru.git volatile = false sync-git-verify-commit-signature = no [local] auto-sync = no location = /var/db/repos/local masters = gentoo priority = 50 strict-misc-digests = true sync-allow-hardlinks = true sync-openpgp-key-refresh = true sync-rcu = false volatile = false [science] auto-sync = yes location = /var/db/repos/science masters = gentoo strict-misc-digests = true sync-allow-hardlinks = true sync-openpgp-key-refresh = true sync-rcu = false sync-type = git sync-uri = https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/sci.git volatile = false Google has only unearthed old instances of this problem that involve obsolete stuff like PORTDIR. Does anyone have a clue about where the problem lies? Thanks! John Blinka
