I emerge rsynced and it recommened portage upgrade. emerge portage worked well until: ... --- !targe sym /usr/bin/emerge >>> original instance of package unmerged safely. * NOTICE: PLEASE *REPLACE* your make.globals. All user changes to variables * in make.globals should be placed in make.conf. DO NOT MODIFY make.globals. * Feature additions are noted in help and make.conf descriptions. Update * them using 'etc-update' please. Maintaining current configs for portage * and other system packages is fairly important for the continued health * of your system. Recalculating the counter... Counter updated successfully. >>> Clearing invalid entries in dependancy cache...grep: Invalid regular expression wc: write error: Broken pipe wc: write error: Broken pipe wc: write error: Broken pipe ... (infinate wc errors)
Found problem I had left in make.conf ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~arch ~x86" when I changed it to: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge portage finished. A typo in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS should not cause an infinate loop
It's not infinate, but it is an aweful lot. ~arch is warned about in new portages.
