To:
[email protected] (Sam James)
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On 7/16/25 9:02 AM, Javier Martinez wrote:
Read this BEFORE getting a flamethrower
This filename in /etc/portage/package.env directory:
'aften'$'\303'
caused a general python DOS, all portage tools related fail with this
error:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode character '\udcc3' in
position 30: surrogates not allowed
However it's hard to get detected the origin, stracing dispatch-conf
did, stracing emerge with forks... don't at least to me.
With all tools fail I want mean ALL, dispatch-conf included for example.
Portage was unable to decode from unicode and reencode.
If this damned error happens to you check which part of python trace
points to, sometimes marks filename as the responsible
I expect that this helps you to avoid getting crazy by this error, avoid crying, and avoid you to reinstall gentoo from the begining and since
it's the FOURTH time that it happens to me in four distincts systems, at least I will find a way to find the answer around there in the mail
list....
This is caused by a really bad idea that someone had to "fix" python for
the python2 -> python3 migration. Python natively handles various
arguments as both str and bytes, portage pointlessly converts them to
bytes in a way that only works some of the time because "it looks like
how python2 did it".
That being said I do wonder how you originally accidentally created this filename...
--
Eli Schwartz
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