Hello everybody !
I've posted this on Gentoo forum this morning but did not have any answer

So, I'm doing a :
"emerge kde gnome openoffice koffice mozilla-firefox eclipse-sdk apache mysql"

And after many hours (days !) of emerging I have this error on "app-arch/file-roller-2.12.3/help"

"LookupError : no codec search functions registred : can't find encoding" (after a look at "gettext.py" it seems).

I've search google a bit and found that it might come from a missing import called "encodings" (Unicode ?) in Python scripts.
I've tried to modify a script (gettext.py) adding "encodings" on the "import" line but without success (and I'm not a Python expert at all either).

So I came back to the original version and did a "emerge --resurme --skipfirst" to continue emerging with others package but I encounter the same errors on other packages like "gnome-panels-2.12.3/help/fish".

Could somebody help on this ?
Thx a lot
Best regards.

Note : atm, I just did a new emerge command skipping gnome.

Have you already read this and tried reemerging libxml, libxml2 and libxslt?

Nope !
I'm going to try (but my Gentoo disk is full now !
too bad, I thought 6GB was enough !).

Take a good look at /usr/portage/distfiles. That's where all the source packages get stored (by default). You may want to clean that directory out from time to time.

Ok, I've created a partition for /usr/portage (I don't know why but I can't resize my partition any more with parted or gparted since I've used it under Ubuntu 6.06 dapper beta).

So I'm now emerging libxml&cie and openoffice (at the same time - hope that's ok).
I will try then to emerge gnome again later.

OK, I've tried a "emerge dev-libs/libxml libxml2 libxslt" on Friday.
Today I've tried another "emerge gnome" and unfortunatly I still have the same error

Any other idea ?

It's a Python issue.
solves the problem with success