The URL above points to a discussion about this problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install new system via stage3 2. boot off the newly installed root partition on own computer 3. DO NOT ADD "acl" back to the global USE variable or your own local USE variable. (it was secretly ommitted when you weree not loooking) 4. emerge sync 5. emerge system 6. emerge depclean Actual Results: Entire system is unusable because particular program's dynamically-linked libraries are no longer available to the programs such as 'ls' and 'emeerge'. Expected Results: The 12 flag members of the stage23 USE variable should have been dutifully carried over to the newly built system's USE flag.
if the stages are built with acl, then acl should be part of the profiles
what profile were you doing this with ? we'll fix the profile, but after that, it's the user's problem if they add USE=-acl
the 2004.0 profile was missing acl in default USE ... ive fixed that in the cascading profiles now