Uninstalling an application (in this example, openoffice-bin), portage is saying: ... --- !empty dir /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program --- !empty dir /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.0 --- !empty dir /opt --- !empty dir /etc !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/app-office/openoffice-bin-1.1.0.portage_lockfi le >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ] ... Anyway, the disinstall procedure is ok. cerrito root # emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1200MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -mfpmath=sse -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -falign-functions=4 -fforce-addr" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 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" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/portdir/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mi.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/gentoo http://212.219.56.162/si tes/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://194.83.57.2/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ htt p://194.83.57.3/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/l inux/gentoo ftp://ftp.flashnet.it/mirror/12/sunsite.unc.edu/Gentoo http://ibibli o.org/pub/Linux/ftp.edisontel.com/pub/Sunsite_Mirror http://sunsite.cnlab-switch .ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gentoo http://www.ibi blio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home" PORTDIR="/home/portdir" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/portoverlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="oss foomaticdb gnome mad mikmod aalib tcltk guile ruby sdl perl esd gtk qt x86 acpi acl alsa apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups directfb dga dvd encode g dbm gif gpm fbcon krb4 kerberos imlib java jpeg gtk2 gtkhtml ldap libg++ libwww miknod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png pnp py thon quicktime radeon readline samba slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd truetype usb X xml2 xmms xv zlib kde arts"
fixed in latest portage