--- !empty dir /usr/lib/portage --- !empty dir /usr/lib --- !empty dir /usr/bin --- !empty dir /usr --- !empty dir /etc >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... emerge: please tell me what to do. Usage: emerge [ options ] [ action ] [ ebuildfile | tbz2file | dependency ] [ ... ] emerge [ options ] [ action ] < system | world > emerge < --sync | --metadata | --info > emerge --resume [ --pretend | --ask | --skipfirst ] emerge --help [ system | config | --sync ] Options: -[abcCdDefhikKlnNoOpPsSuvV] [--oneshot] [--newuse] [--noconfmem] [--columns] [--nospinner] Actions: [ --clean | --depclean | --prune | --regen | --search | --unmerge ] For more help try 'emerge --help' or consult the man page. The command given was emerge -1 portage portage-utils and I had 2.1_pre4-r1 installed and attempted to update to 2.1_pre5. Next time I run emerge after this error I stumbled accross bug #124140. Portage 2.1_pre5 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/src/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect cvs distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict stricter verify-rdepend" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://lame.lut.fi/linux/gentoo " LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LINGUAS="fi" MAKEOPTS="-j2 " PKGDIR="/home/pkg/" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/checkouts/overlays/betelgeuse" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 aac acl acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 bzlib cairo cdb cddb cdparanoia crypt cups dbus divx4linux dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss esd firefox foomaticdb freetype gif gstreamer gtk2 hal java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libg++ libwww logitech-mouse mad makecheck mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2 mp3 mpeg ncurses network nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png qt quicktime readline real rtc samba spell sse sse2 ssl subversion svg symlink tcpd theora threads truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs xcomposite xml xml2 xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard kernel_linux linguas_fi userland_GNU video_cards_none video_cards_nvidia" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LDFLAGS
Luckily this one is fixed in 2.1_pre5, but you have to get it installed first. :) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117988 ***
