Only happens (but always does) on one system, two others, with nominally similar (but not identical) configurations, appear to be fine. Evolution also fails, but I don't know if that is related. Here is the tail end of the emerge output, followed by emerge --info: i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -ggdb -march=pentium4 -pipe -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-pointer-sign -o .libs/evolution-data-server Evolution-DataServer-common.o Evolution-DataServer-skels.o Evolution-DataServer-stubs.o server-interface-check.o server-logging.o server.o offline-listener.o -pthread -Wl,-R/usr/lib/nspr -pthread -Wl,-R/usr/lib/nspr ../addressbook/libedata-book/.libs/libedata-book-1.2.so /var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/work/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/addressbook/libebook/.libs/libebook-1.2.so /var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/work/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/camel/.libs/libcamel-1.2.so -L/usr/lib/nspr -L/usr/lib/lib -L/usr/lib/nss -lssl3 -lsmime3 -lnss3 -L/usr/lib -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lcom_err -lgssapi_krb5 ../calendar/libedata-cal/.libs/libedata-cal-1.2.so /var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/work/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/calendar/libecal/.libs/libecal-1.2.so /var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/work/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/libedataserver/.libs/libedataserver-1.2.so -ldb /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so -lnsl /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so -lssl -lcrypto -lresolv -lutil /usr/lib/libesd.so /usr/lib/libasound.so /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so /usr/lib/libpopt.so /usr/lib/libxml2.so -lz -lm /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so /usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so -lrt /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -ldl -lpthread creating evolution-data-server make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/work/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/src' rm GNOME_Evolution_DataServer.server.in make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/work/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/src' Making all in docs make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/work/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/docs' make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/work/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/docs' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/work/evolution-data-server-2.22.3' make: *** [all] Error 2 * * ERROR: gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.22.3 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 3440: Called gnome2_src_compile * environment, line 2608: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * emake || die "compile failure" * The die message: * compile failure * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/gnome-extra:evolution-data-server-2.22.3:20080912-123152.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.22.3/temp/environment'. * emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:04:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" BIBINPUTS=":~/papers" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CCACHE_DIR="/var/tmp/ccache" CCACHE_SIZE="2G" CFLAGS="-O2 -ggdb -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="." CLEAN_DELAY="5" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CVSROOT="hartley@sun23.aic.nrl.navy.mil:/rhome/sun36/hartley/repository" CVS_RSH="ssh" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -ggdb -march=pentium4 -pipe" DERBY_HOME="/home/hartley/db-derby" DISPLAY="localhost:10.0" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EDITOR="/usr/bin/emacs" ELIBC="glibc" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-av" EMERGE_WARNING_DELAY="10" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer nostrip sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O ${DISTDIR}/${FILE} ${URI}" GCC_SPECS="" GDK_USE_XFT="1" GENERATION="2" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" GUILE_LOAD_PATH="/usr/share/guile/1.8" HOME="/root" INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/info:/usr/share/info/emacs-22" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" J2EE_HOME="/opt/sun-j2ee-1.3.1" JAVAC="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/bin/javac" JAVA_HOME="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm" JDK_HOME="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm" KDEDIRS="/usr:/usr/local:/usr/kde/3.5" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LESS="-R -M --shift 5" LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" LOGNAME="root" LS_COLORS="no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.svgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.pdf=00;32:*.ps=00;32:*.txt=00;32:*.patch=00;32:*.diff=00;32:*.log=00;32:*.tex=00;32:*.doc=00;32:*.aac=00;36:*.au=00;36:*.flac=00;36:*.mid=00;36:*.midi=00;36:*.mka=00;36:*.mp3=00;36:*.mpc=00;36:*.ogg=00;36:*.ra=00;36:*.wav=00;36:" MAKEOPTS="-j2" MANPATH="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/man:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/man:/etc/java-config/system-vm/man/:/usr/kde/3.5/share/man:/usr/qt/3/doc/man" OPENGL_PROFILE="xorg-x11" PAGER="/usr/bin/less" PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/javaws:/usr/kde/3.5/sbin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:~/bin:/opt/EDTpdv" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/qt/3/lib/pkgconfig" PORTAGE_ARCHLIST="ppc s390 amd64 x86 ppc64 x86-fbsd m68k arm sparc sh mips ia64 alpha hppa sparc-fbsd" PORTAGE_BINHOST_CHUNKSIZE="3000" PORTAGE_BIN_PATH="/usr/lib/portage/bin" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_DEBUG="0" PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep" PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage@localhost" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="[portage] ebuild log for ${PACKAGE} on ${HOST}" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="root" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary echo" PORTAGE_GID="250" PORTAGE_INST_GID="0" PORTAGE_INST_UID="0" PORTAGE_IUSE="^(alpha|alsa_cards_aoa|alsa_cards_aoa-fabric-layout|alsa_cards_aoa-onyx|alsa_cards_aoa-soundbus|alsa_cards_aoa-soundbus-i2s|alsa_cards_aoa-tas|alsa_cards_aoa-toonie|alsa_cards_armaaci|alsa_cards_at91-soc|alsa_cards_at91-soc-eti-b1-wm8731|alsa_cards_au1x00|alsa_cards_harmony|alsa_cards_powermac|alsa_cards_pxa2xx-i2sound|alsa_cards_pxa2xx-soc|alsa_cards_pxa2xx-soc-corgi|alsa_cards_pxa2xx-soc-poodle|alsa_cards_pxa2xx-soc-spitz|alsa_cards_pxa2xx-soc-tosa|alsa_cards_sa11xx-uda1341ts|alsa_cards_sun-amd7930|alsa_cards_sun-cs4231|alsa_cards_sun-dbri|altivec|amd64|aqua|arm|bmp|bmpx|bootstrap|build|coreaudio|crosscompile_opts_.*|elibc_.*|elibc_Darwin|elibc_DragonFly|elibc_FreeBSD|elibc_NetBSD|elibc_OpenBSD|elibc_glibc|elibc_uclibc|emul-linux-x86|hppa|ia64|ibm|infopipe|kernel_.*|kernel_Darwin|kernel_FreeBSD|kernel_linux|m68k|mips|mplayer-bin|multilib|n32|n64|pam_console|pbbuttonsd|ppc|ppc64|ppcsha1|s390|selinux|sh|sparc|sparc-fbsd|uclibc|ultra1|userland_.*|userland_BSD|userland_Darwin|userland_GNU|video_cards_impact|video_cards_newport|video_cards_sunbw2|video_cards_suncg14|video_cards_suncg3|video_cards_suncg6|video_cards_sunffb|video_cards_sunleo|video_cards_suntcx|vis|x86|x86-fbsd|xmms)$" PORTAGE_NICENESS="3" PORTAGE_PYM_PATH="/usr/lib/portage/pym" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="3" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTAGE_USE="elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU x86" PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE="0700" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/portage" PWD="/home/hartley" PYTHONPATH="/usr/lib/portage/pym" QMAKESPEC="linux-g++" QTDIR="/usr/qt/3" RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O ${DISTDIR}/${FILE} ${URI}" ROOT="/" ROOTPATH="/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/javaws:/usr/kde/3.5/sbin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin" RPMDIR="/usr/portage/rpm" SHELL="/bin/bash" SHLVL="2" SSH_CLIENT="132.250.84.167 38828 22" SSH_CONNECTION="132.250.84.167 38828 132.250.84.94 22" SSH_TTY="/dev/pts/0" STAGE1_USE="nptl nptlonly unicode" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" TERM="xterm" USE="X a52 acl acpi alsa arts berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo f77 fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile hal iconv idn imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg junit kde kerberos lcms ldap mad midi mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session slang spell spl sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv vga" USER="root" USERLAND="GNU" USE_EXPAND="ALSA_CARDS ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS APACHE2_MODULES APACHE2_MPMS CAMERAS CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS DVB_CARDS ELIBC FCDSL_CARDS FOO2ZJS_DEVICES FRITZCAPI_CARDS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL LCD_DEVICES LINGUAS LIRC_DEVICES MISDN_CARDS USERLAND VIDEO_CARDS" USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND" USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal:env.d" VIDEO_CARDS="nv vga" VMHANDLE="sun-jdk-1.4" XAUTHORITY="/root/.xauthxq2M79" XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/usr/kde/3.5/share:/usr/local/share" _="/usr/bin/emerge"
Worked after I cleared /var/tmp/portage Apparently an interrupted build can leave stuff there that interferes with subsequent emerges.
