after emerge the new version of mpd, the unmerge of mpd-0.11.5 stalls at the line --- cfgpro dir /etc/init.d I cancelled it and deleted the lock files, then tried unmerging again and the same happened. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge -C =media-sound/mpd-0.11.5 Actual Results: console stops responding (logged into server via ssh) Expected Results: unmerged successfully Portage 2.0.53_rc5 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r2, 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 i586) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r7 i586 AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 distcc 2.18.3 i386-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 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-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k6 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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="-march=k6 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.citylink.co.nz/gentoo/ http://gentoo.recoil.net.nz/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow alsa apm bitmap-fonts crypt eds emboss fortran gif gstreamer imlib jpeg libg++ libwww maildir mmx mysql ncurses pam pdflib perl pic png python readline samba tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109656 ***
wrong bug...
Possibly a Portage issue?
Try with newer portage and reopen if still an issue.