I've been using dcron-2.9 on 3 X86 machines for a while now with no problems. There are no open bugs. I suggest moving it to stable for X86. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge info: Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo http://adelie.polymtl.ca/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 3dnow avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline tetex aalib bonobo svga tcltk java guile ruby X sdl tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk motif opengl mozilla cdr apache2 fbcon gtk2 imap maildir mozcalendar moznocompose moznomail mozsvg mozxmlterm plotutils samba scanner usb -oss -apm -arts -gpm -kde -nls -qt" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
me too now stable