Doing an install from Stage 2 or Stage 3 images seems to cause a number of problems with later merges, as though some packages were unavailable, dependancies were unresolvable, or portage were reporting packages merged when merging had actually failed. Examples: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2340 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2351 Doing an install from Stage 1, this is not a problem. This seems also to be the root of the "qmngio.cpp", "all-recursive", and "libpng" problems showing up in the installation forums. (That's most of the complaints about qt, kde & gnome not compiling, opera not working, ...) Also, the linux-headers package doesn't seem to merge properly to Stage 1 & 2 installs, causing kernel compile problems, and emerge system doesn't work there, either. These all seem to be related -- looks like maybe portage is reporting packages merged when merging failed? This may be at the root of a lot of the confusion on the installation forums & the bug traffic that's been going on today. This may need to be something you evaluate for new, irreproducible bugs. I haven't tried to duplicate this with any version but 1.1a. Moved severity to blocker, since stage 2 & 3 systems are all but unuseable with this situation. If you can figure out what's wrong (and preferrably how to fix it without recompiling from scratch, since bootstrap.sh & emerge system consistently die midway) you'll fix a lot of the problems filling the installation and newbie forums.
OK; I'm creating a new stage1, then stage2 and stage3. This is probably due to a buggy portage in stage2 and stage3.
I can't reproduce this problem since the new build. Changing status to fixed.
Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux". I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers, this is the only reasonable way to do this.