After emerging pbbuttonsd with the useflag "ibam" active, it would no longer start. It complained about a missing /var/lib/ibam directory. The problem was solved by creating that directory with: $ mkdir /var/lib/ibam The pbbuttonsd ebuild should create that directory automatically. Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/ppc/2005.1/ppc/G4, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 ppc 7447A, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r4 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] 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 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=G4 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_IE.UTF-8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa altivec animation apm artworkextra bitmap-fonts browserplugin cairo cdr cups dbus dga dhcp dvd eds encode exif fam firefox foomaticdb glitz gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl jikes jpeg mad matroska mikmod mono mozsvg mp3 mpeg mppe-mppc nautilus net network new-login nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pic png ppc ppds print python samba sdl ssl theora truetype unicode usb vorbis xml2 xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS
fixed, thanks