After I emerged nxserver-enterprise I could not open anything in X, it turned out that it was a problem reaching xfree's libraries. I found that /etc/ld.so.conf was sorted alphabetically. Rearranging it and running ldconfig -f /etc/ld.so.conf solved the problem untill next time portage runs env-update. I've seen same solution working on mozilla-firefox and mozilla-thunderbird emerges failing... I found bug 3698 having the same problem described, but for some reason i could not reopen it, thus this new opening... I don't know if i ruin anything by this but "it works for me"(tm): in /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py at line 665 it says newld.sort() I commented it out and ran env-update and everything's fine now (until next emerge portage i presume) Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9 Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD-K7(tm) Processor Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/NX/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X X509 accounting acl acpi acpi4linux aim alsa apm async berkdb cap cgi chroot clamav crypt curl directfb ethereal evms2 fastcgi fbcon fullrpc gd gdbm ggi gif gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb jabber java javascript jpeg justify lcms ldap libg++ libwww maildir mmx mng motif mpi msn mysql ncurses nocd nojoystick noreiserfs oav odbc offensive oggvorbis openssh oscar pam parse-clocks pcre pdflib perl png python readline regexp server slang snmp socks5 spell ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff transparent-proxy truetype unicode usb vhosts virus-scan wmf x86 xml2 xv yahoo zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45866 ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44028 *** *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44028 ***