Rsynch times out (internet access is fine) and emerging anything gives a '#' back immediately. Copying the /bin directory from an untarred portage over the top of /usr/bin/portage fixes the problem until the next time I update portage.Once this is done all other emerges work successfully until I update Portage again. Source /etc/profile makes no different to Portage's ability to see gcc. # emerge --info !!! No gcc found. You probably need to 'source /etc/profile' !!! to update the environment of this terminal and possibly !!! other terminals also. Portage 2.1.2_rc1-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, [unavailable], glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:20:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -freorder-blocks -ftracer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -freorder-blocks -ftracer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ " LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acpi alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dga dlloader dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glibc-omitfp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kernel_linux lame ldap libg++ linguas_en_GB live lm_sensors mad mikmod mjpeg mmx mng mono mozcalendar mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg msn musepack musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg openal openexr opengl oss pam pcre pda pdf perl png povray ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection sdl sensord session slp spell spl sse sse3 ssl svg svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales vcd video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_versa vidix visualization vorbis win32codecs wma wmf wv xine xml xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147625 ***
