Bugzilla Bug 130243

app-shells/bash-3.1_p16
sys-apps/iproute2-2.6.15.20060110

root@myhost ~ # ifcfg eth0
/sbin/ifcfg: line 25: [: too many arguments
/sbin/ifcfg: line 26: [: -ge: unary operator expected
/sbin/ifcfg: line 27: [: -ge: unary operator expected
/sbin/ifcfg: line 28: [: -ge: unary operator expected

Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r3,
2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(TM)Processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[enabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon -funroll-loops -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon -funroll-loops -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.flonet.net/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 alsa apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2
bzlib cli crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dri eds emboss encode esd
expat fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gpm
gstreamer gtk2 imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod
mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png
posix pppd python quicktime readline recode sasl sdl session simplexml soap
sockets spell spl ssl tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
udev userlocales vorbis xml xml2 xmms xsl xv zlib linguas_de userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

unrelated to bash-3.1

ok, this error happens because the command you ran (ifcfg eth0) is invalid and
the script doesnt properly check for invalid usage

added a patch to 2.6.16.20060323 and e-mailed upstream