OK. longer description: Unfortunately I have glibc added to /etc/portage/keywords, and it upgraded to 2.3.4.20041102. Since then I had several problems: a)I can't untar some files, an strace tar unreveal: there is a problem at /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 file, which belongs to openssl package. b) I have several problems to use scp from the "broken" mashine (A) to my laptop. But I can copy files from my laptop via scp to the the broken mashine. I also tried to revert back to an stable glibc, but emerge finish after untarring the files. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: root@epia distfiles # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-rc2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-rc2 i686 VIA C3 Ezra Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=c3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /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=c3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/hda9" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apache2 arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvb dvd dvdr encode f77 fam flac gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod motif mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png postfix python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang speex spell ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb x86 xauth xine xml xml2 xml2sdl xmms xv xvid zlib"
you need to post some actual error messages
Created attachment 46072 [details] tar -xvf portage.tar tar was recompiled cleanly. However, it can't untar potage.
Comment on attachment 46072 [details] tar -xvf portage.tar For the scp thing, I must correct myself. I can scp to some mashines, but not to my laptop. Is perhaps something wrong with sshd on the laptop.
The problem I described above, are caused by the ldap configuration. After changing /etc/nsswitch.conf to another configuration (without ldap) all the problems are gone. No I recompile ldap, go thru my LDAP configuration. Shame myself ;-( (change the bugreport to invalid)
