Sorry, i can't give you much more information. It just hangs everytime during the POSIX ps check. Ctrl+C also doesnt work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge libbonobo 2. 3. emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac acpi alsa audiofile avi avibzip2 berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dio divx4linux dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode esd exif fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg kde kipi ladcca libg++ libmng libwww lm_sensors mad mikmod mime mms motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl sndfile sockets spell sse ssl symlink sysvipc szip tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vcd videos vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xosd xpm xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
sounds like a kernel issue. can you access another terminal and see what it does (check with ps and/or strace). I have in the past encountered ps commands hanging almost forever due to processes holding kernel-locks while waiting for network shares (and getting stuck for some hours).
Well, i tried emerging in Singleuser mode and... it worked. I then switched back to runlevel 3, and tried again, and again, it emerged flawlessly. Maybe this is somehow related to the fact that cupsd just wouldn't exit properly when changing runlevels.
Please re-open if this is still a problem, looks invalid to me.
