App-portage/portato depends on dev-python/shm only if [userpriv] USE flag is *not* set Portato, when run with simple user privileges, will always fail with an unhandled error about missing shm, if dev-python/shm is not installed. If I understand the situation correctly, I suggest either: 1) Putting a dependency on dev-python/shm only if USE flag [userpriv] *is* set and moving /usr/bin/portato to /usr/sbin/portato, to make clear that portato is not supposed to run as a non-root user or 2) Just making dependency on dev-python/shm unconditional. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.# USE=userpriv emerge portato 2.$ portato Actual Results: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/portato", line 20, in <module> start() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/portato/__init__.py", line 90, in start import shm_wrapper as shm ImportError: No module named shm_wrapper Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs func(*targs, **kargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/portato/listener.py", line 134, in close if self._sig is not None: AttributeError: 'Listener' object has no attribute '_sig' Error in sys.exitfunc: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs func(*targs, **kargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/portato/listener.py", line 134, in close if self._sig is not None: AttributeError: 'Listener' object has no attribute '_sig' emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc49 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.31-gentoo-r2-jaheira x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r2-jaheira-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E7200_@_2.53GHz-with-gentoo-2.1.6 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.3, 3.1.1-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1.6 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.0-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.29 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests buildsyspkg ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict suidctl unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en en_US el" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/zugaina /usr/local/portage/layman/trauma /usr/local/portage/layman/games /usr/local/portage/layman/vmware /usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/layman/perl-experimental /usr/local/portage/layman/akoya /usr/local/portage/layman/enlightenment /usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage/layman/mozilla /usr/local/portage/layman/oss-overlay /usr/local/portage/layman/x11 /usr/local/portage/layman/python /usr/local/portage/layman/pythonhead /usr/local/portage/layman/vps /usr/local/portage/nske" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alac alsa amd64 amr amrnb amrwb berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus dhcpcd divx dmx doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo examples faac faad fam fax ffmpeg firefox flac fortran freetype gdbm gif gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk h224 h323 hal hpn iconv imagemagick inotify jpeg kde lame libnotify mad matroska mikmod mmap mmx mmxext modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib nautilus ncurses net network networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg ogm opengl openmp oss oss4 pam pcre pdf perl plugins png policykit postscript ppds pppd pulseaudio python python3 qt3support qt4 quicktime radio readline reflection sdl session sip spell spl sqlite srt sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb vdpau vhook vorbis wav wavpack wmf x264 xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xprint xrandr xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8X0 ca0106 hda-intel" 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" CAMERAS="canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US el" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau vesa nv nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Thanks for your report. Adding shm unconditionally is probably the most useful way here. As portato also needs a bump, I combined this with bug #292389. See there for the ebuild patch.
Fixed with 0.13.1 ebuild - can be closed now
