Kylir's Website » Linux http://www.kylirhorton.com Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:24:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Gentoo “Can’t Pickle” Error http://www.kylirhorton.com/2009/gentoo-cant-pickle-error/ http://www.kylirhorton.com/2009/gentoo-cant-pickle-error/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:25:09 +0000 Kylir http://www.kylirhorton.com/?p=118 I’m a Gentoo newbie. Actually, I consider myself a newbie to Linux in general. The other day while putting together my own system using Gentoo, I ran into problems every time I tried to emerge something. While portage was calculating dependencies, it would suddenly stop and spit out a cryptic error trace that ended with:

cPickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <type 'method-wrapper'>: attribute lookup __builtin__.method-wrapper failed

None of my Gentoo geek buddies knew what was up. After trying a few things, I came up with a good solution: manually reinstall emerge/portage. I found an excellent tutorial on how to do this at gentoo.org:

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

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