After every emerge I get: >>> original instance of package unmerged safely. >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies... sed: Couldn't flush stdout: Broken pipe Interstingly enough, this doesn't happen when I run depscan.sh or env-update.sh by hand, but only /sbin/env-update (or when emerge finishes): laptop env.d # depscan.sh * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ] laptop env.d # env-update.sh laptop env.d # env-update * Caching service dependencies... sed: Couldn't flush stdout: Broken pipe [ ok ] laptop env.d # I have looked up and down in these scripts and I can't even find where sed is being used. I have tried reemerging: portage, coreutils, sed, and python. Mosty a just a nuisance (I think) but I'd like to know whats going amiss. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. laptop env.d # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.2-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.2-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -ftracer -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -ftracer -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X Xaw3d aalib alsa apm arts artswrappersuid atlas avi berkdb cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb dnd dv dvd emacs encode esd ext-png ext-zlib faad fbcon fbdev ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb freetype fs gc gd-external gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 java jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mpeg ncurses nls nptl offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic plotutils png ppds python qt qtmt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff transcode truetype type1 usb vim-with-x wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I get this too, although with a sed error too. Everything still works though.Hope this extra info helps. root@wednesday ~ # env-update.sh root@wednesday ~ # depscan.sh * Caching service dependencies... xargs: unmatched double quote root@wednesday ~ # env-update >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... * Caching service dependencies... xargs: unmatched double quote sed: Couldn't flush stdout: Broken pipe root@wednesday ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-amd64-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040619-r1, 2.6.8-gentoo-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache digest sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages64" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnowex X X509 Xaw3d acl acpi aim alsa amd64 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib caps cdparanoia cdr chroot crypt cups divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread encode erandom esd fftw flac foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 icq idea imagemagick imlib jabber javajavascript jpeg kde kerberos krb4 ldap libg++ libwww linguas_en_GB live lzo mad md5sum mikmod mime monkey motif mozilla mpeg msn multilibncurses nls nogcj nptl offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic pie png python qt quicktime readline rtc samba sdl skey slang slp smime sockets speex spell ssl szip tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads truetype unicode wxwindows xine xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid yahoo zlib
ElGuido: your CONFIG_PROTECT is screwed up ... CONFIG_PROTECT is not : delimited
I haven't seen this problem at all since upgrading portage a while back. I'm gonna assume whatever it was got fixed by accident and close this.