Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild Checking reverse dependencies... Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update will be emerged. Collecting system binaries and libraries... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files) Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done. (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath) Checking dynamic linking consistency... /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild: line 461: 12505 Done ldd "$FILE" 2>/dev/null 12507 Broken pipe | grep -v "$LD_MASK" 12508 Segmentation fault | $SONAME_GREP -q "$SONAME_SEARCH" terminated. I broke it, re-ran and it completed sucessfully without the same error. Portage 2.1.1_pre4-r4 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/amd64-vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 Last Sync: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:00:08 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r2 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0.0_rc1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.16 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=k8 -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=k8 -ftracer -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/portage /usr/local/overlays/xgl-coffee" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd eds elibc_glibc emboss encode ffmpeg firefox foomaticdb fortran gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kernel_linux lzw lzw-tiff mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres pppd python quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userland_GNU video_cards_fglrx video_cards_radeon xinerama xorg xpm xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Will, if you can't reproduce it, you should check your RAM/overheating CPU etc.