The /sbin/functions.sh file provided by sys-apps/baselayout tries to source /etc/conf.d/bootsplash.conf which doesn't exist. I am getting other errors and maybe they are due to this. root@amigos /home/chetan # emerge -pv baselayout Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.8.12 -bootstrap -build -livecd -(selinux) -static 0 kB root@amigos /home/chetan # emerge -pv bootsplash Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] media-gfx/bootsplash-0.6-r14 -livecd 0 kB Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rm -r /etc/bootsplash; rm -r /etc/conf.d/bootsplash* 2.ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" emerge baselayout bootsplash 3. Expected Results: We could try linking /etc/conf.d/bootsplash.conf to this file if it was just a typo. The other errors i mentioned donot get fixed by this. root@amigos /home/chetan # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.26) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/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/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 avi berkdb bonobo cdr clisp crypt curl dga directfb doc dvd emacs emacs-w3 encode esd fbcon flac fltk foomaticdb freetype gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg msn ncurses net nls oggvorbis opengl openssh pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype unicode usb video_cards_i830 x86 xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid yahoo zlib"
this has been fixed in cvs