carpaski asked me to post this: The first line '!!! INVALID...' is given upon ANY emerge (ie: rsync, --pretend xxx,etc) This may or may not be related to other errors i am having with packages not wanting to emerge (db, mozilla-firebed [says it emerges, but does not install at all], not to mention my system keeps wanting to update to old version of some programs [imlib2,pyxml]) I do not know what is trying to use these ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. Its not make.conf or make.globals, and i have not given emerge this command. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge anything 2. 3. Actual Results: see above Expected Results: not thrown the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS error cas root # emerge -v info !!! INVALID ACCEPT_KEYWORD: x86 Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gaming-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gaming-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" BASH_ENV="/etc/portage/bashrc" CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="/opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.1/lib/rt.jar:." CLEAN_DELAY="5" COLORFGBG="15;default;0" COLORTERM="Eterm" COLORTERM_BCE="Eterm" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CVS_RSH="ssh" CXX="g++" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISPLAY=":0.0" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EDITOR="/bin/nano" ETERM_THEME_ROOT="/usr/share/Eterm/themes/Eterm" ETERM_VERSION="0.9.2" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 --passive-ftp -P ${DISTDIR} ${URI}" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" G_BROKEN_FILENAMES="1" HOME="/root" HOSTNAME="cas.pimpz" INFODIR="/usr/share/info:/usr/X11R6/info" INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2/info" INPUTRC="/etc/inputrc" JAVA_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.1" JRE_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.1" KDEDIR="/usr/kde/3.1" KDEDIRS="/usr" LESS="-R" LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" LOGNAME="cas" LS_COLORS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" MANPATH="/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.1/man" MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla" NOCOLOR="false" OLDPWD="/home/cas/.idesktop" PAGER="/usr/bin/less" PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.2:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/blackdown-jre-1.4.1/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.1/sbin:/usr/kde/3.1/bin" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_BINHOST_CHUNKSIZE="3000" PORTAGE_CACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep/" PORTAGE_CALLER="emerge" PORTAGE_GID="250" PORTAGE_MASTER_PID="1580" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PRELINK_PATH="" PRELINK_PATH_MASK="" PS1="\[\033[01;31m\]\h \[\033[01;34m\]\W \$ \[\033[00m\]" PWD="/root" QMAKESPEC="linux-g++" QTDIR="/usr/qt/3" RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 --passive-ftp -P ${DISTDIR} ${URI}" RPMDIR="/usr/portage/rpm" RSYNC_RETRIES="3" RSYNC_TIMEOUT="180" SHLVL="8" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" TERM="Eterm" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime slang spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa gdbm berkdb readline arts svga tcltk java ruby X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt motif opengl mozilla ldap cdr" USER="cas" USERLAND="GNU" USE_EXPAND="VIDEO_CARDS INPUT_DEVICES LINGUAS" USE_ORDER="env:conf:auto:defaults" WINDOWID="31457343" XARGS="xargs -r" XAUTHORITY="/root/.xauthNLDCxQ" XINITRC="/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc" _="/usr/bin/emerge"
Could you please quote the exact error/warning message ?
review your /usr/portage/profiles/arch.list it should contain a list of all valid KEYWORDS if it's blank, `emerge sync` ... if that doesnt fix it, sync with a different server ... if that doesnt fix it, nuke your portage dir and sync fresh
