portage went batty on me...

[lordnothing]

while running 'emerge -Uuvp world', emerge gave me this error after trying to calculate the dependencies for that massive upgrade (i've been away from my puter for 3 wks):

nod metadata # emerge -Uuvp world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies |

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2170, in ?
    if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1036, in xcreate
    if not self.create(myk):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 749, in create
    if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 939, in select_dep
    if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 749, in create
    if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 939, in select_dep
    if not self.create(myk,myparent,myuse=binpkguseflags):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 749, in create
    if not self.select_dep("/",mydep["/"],myparent=mp,myuse=myuse):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 871, in select_dep
    myeb=portage.portdb.xmatch("bestmatch-visible",x)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4065, in xmatch
    myval=best(self.xmatch("match-visible",None,mydep,mykey))
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4076, in xmatch
    myval=self.match2(mydep,mykey,self.xmatch("list-visible",None,mydep,mykey))
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4062, in xmatch
    myval=self.gvisible(self.visible(self.cp_list(mykey)))
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4145, in gvisible
    myaux=db["/"]["porttree"].dbapi.aux_get(mycpv, ["KEYWORDS"])
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3822, in aux_get
    writemsg(str(red("\naux_get():")+" (0) Error in "+mycpv+" ebuild. ("+str(ret)+")\n"
NameError: global name 'ret' is not defined

i wonder if maybe this happened because i had to kill the power while it was in the middle of running (don't ask)... any ideas on what the problem is?

[lordnothing]

i looked on the gentoo forums and found this thread that explains the problem...
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.p...ght=global+ret
two letters were missing...