The moves called from the files: sys-libs/com_err/com_err-1.39.ebuild: 68 sys-libs/ss/ss-1.39.ebuild: 66 sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.9-r1.ebuild: 42 all failed because the "${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/*.so* evaluates to /var/tmp/.../usr/lib64/*.so*, but there is no lib64 directory in /var/tmp/.../usr/ . The so files were in the /var/tmp/.../usr/lib dirs. They all worked after I changed the mv to have the correct dir. emerge --info: Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Last Sync: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:50:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam firefox fortran gif gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux ldap mad mikmod mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts userland_GNU video_cards_radeon vorbis xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
your system is broken if there is no lib64 directory post the output of `emerge -v --info` and `emerge cracklib >& log`