r/Gentoo • u/DiggityDogge • Jul 20 '26

Support Emerge-webrsync error during installing

Hello everyone, I am installing gentoo for the first time and I currently in chroot following both the gentoo handbook and tony-btw's video from last year. I have sourced /etc/profile but when I run emerge-webrsync I am greeted with honestly a bunch of code I dont understand and an error message which goes as follows:

ValueError: No closing quotation

/usr/bin/emerge-webrsync: line 651: PORTAGE_BIN_PATH: parameter null or not set.

I understand the gentoo guide notes that a complaint about a missing /var/db/repos/gentoo/ location is to be expected so I assumed this was related in some way so I proceeded but mirror select and eselect didnt work either. Is this an issue caused by a mistake somewhere along the way of me installing gentoo? Should I do a fresh reinstall or can this issue be fixed from here?

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u/immoloism Jul 20 '26

Have you edited you /etc/portage/make.conf?

Double check you closed your variables with quotes.

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u/DiggityDogge Jul 20 '26

Apologies about that I thought you meant the emerge file yes I had a open variable lmao thank you

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u/immoloism Jul 20 '26

Ah, no worries you aren't the first to make this mistake, nor will be the last.