The ebuild fail when it calls gnome2_src_unpack on line 22.
please provide a log or the error message.
I had the same issue: >>> Unpacking source... /usr/portage/x11-themes/gnome-backgrounds/gnome-backgrounds-2.14.0.ebuild: line 22: gnome2_src_unpack: command not found /usr/portage/x11-themes/gnome-backgrounds/gnome-backgrounds-2.14.0.ebuild: line 24: cd: /var/tmp/portage/gnome-backgrounds-2.14.0/work/gnome-backgrounds-2.14.0: No such file or directory * Applying Makefile.in.in.patch ... * Failed Patch: Makefile.in.in.patch ! * ( /usr/portage/x11-themes/gnome-backgrounds/files/Makefile.in.in.patch ) * * Include in your bugreport the contents of: * * /var/tmp/portage/gnome-backgrounds-2.14.0/temp/Makefile.in.in.patch-16779.out !!! ERROR: x11-themes/gnome-backgrounds-2.14.0 failed. Portage 2.1_pre6-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.0, glibc-2.4-r0, 2.6.15-ck7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-ck7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2-r1 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-r1, 2.16.91.0.6 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="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -ffriend-injection" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer nostrip sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/bmg-main /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aac alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba dbus debug dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd expat fastbuild firefox flac foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde ldap lzw lzw-tiff mad memlimit mono mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl pic png posix python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl sqlite ssl tcpd theora tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis xml xml2 xpm xsl xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_vga video_cards_vesa video_cards_nv" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Created attachment 82176 [details] Failed patch
you guys don't have the new eclass yet.
*** Bug 126241 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
With the new eclass, this builds with no problem.
new eclass should be synced out by now.