These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies... done! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3263, in ? mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1652, in display verboseadd += create_use_string(key.upper(), cur_iuse_map[key], cur_use_map[key], KeyError: 'elibc' Portage 2.1_pre6-r4 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.15.6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15.6 x86_64 unknown Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r4 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] 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-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer notitles sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aac acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cdb cdr cli crypt cups dlloader dri dvb dvd dvdr eds emboss encode exif flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gif gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber jpeg kde lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mmap mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses netboot nodrm nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib png posix pppd qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session slang sockets speex spell spl ssl theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb xorg xpm xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
You need to update portage. `emerge portage` should do the trick. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 134086 ***
You simply can't update portage, because it's broken. If you use 'emerge portage' the result is the error above.
Temporarily remove the USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN variable from $PORTDIR/profiles/base/make.defaults. That will prevent the error so that you can upgrade.
