When i attempted to emerge -pu system i got this error: bash-2.05a# emerge -pu system These are the packages that I would merge, in order. Calculating system dependencies |portage: aux_get(): error processing DEPEND for sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3; exiting. Included is: - strace -o dump.log emerge -pu world DEPEND, RDEPEND part of ebuild: sys-apps/shadow-4.0.3.ebuild: DEPEND=">=sys-libs/pam-0.75-r4 >=sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r3 sys-devel/gettext" RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/pam-0.75-r4 >=sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r3" SLOT="0" portage 2.0.36 gcc 2.95.3-r7
Created attachment 3894 [details] strace output for failing emerge -pu system
Works fine this side. Check that you do not have a copy in portage-local, or maybe rm -rf that dir, and rsync again with diff rsync servers.
The emerge -pu system seems to be resolved magically, so i guess it really was something on my system that caused this bug.
*** Bug 12653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***