alpha log # less /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20140927.3.17.2/temp/build.log "/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20140927.3.17.2/temp/build.log" may be a binary file. See it anyway? >>> Extracting info ESC[32;01m * ESC[39;49;00mPackage: app-misc/ca-certificates-20140927.3.17.2 ESC[32;01m * ESC[39;49;00mRepository: gentoo ESC[32;01m * ESC[39;49;00mUSE: abi_x86_64 amd64 kernel_linux elibc_glibc cacert userland_GNU ESC[32;01m * ESC[39;49;00mFEATURES: preserve-libs sandbox userpriv usersandbox >>> Extracting app-misc/ca-certificates-20140927.3.17.2 >>> Extracting info >>> Extracting info ESC[32;01m * ESC[39;49;00mPackage: app-misc/ca-certificates-20140927.3.17.2 ESC[32;01m * ESC[39;49;00mRepository: gentoo ESC[32;01m * ESC[39;49;00mUSE: abi_x86_64 amd64 kernel_linux elibc_glibc cacert userland_GNU ESC[32;01m * ESC[39;49;00mFEATURES: preserve-libs sandbox userpriv usersandbox >>> Extracting app-misc/ca-certificates-20140927.3.17.2 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/_MergeProcess.py", line 234, in _spawn prev_mtimes=self.prev_mtimes, counter=counter) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4985, in merge counter=counter) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4146, in treewalk rval = self._merge_contents(srcroot, destroot, cfgfiledict) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4424, in _merge_contents self.settings["EPREFIX"].lstrip(os.sep), cfgfiledict, mymtime): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4616, in mergeme myrealdest, mydmode, destmd5, mydest_link) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4918, in _protect force=force) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/util/__init__.py", line 1704, in new_protect_filename encoding=_encodings['merge'], errors='replace') TypeError: _unicode_decode() takes at least 1 argument (2 given)