after installing ntop-3.1 (currently masked for another issue) depscan.sh hangs/locks every time. was unable to find the issue until I unmerged ntop and it began to work again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. unmask ntop-3.1 in /etc/portage/package.unmask 2. emerge ntop 3.
does ntop-3.0 initscript work? (they are the same...) can you remove /etc/init.d/ntop and re-emerge?
To fix: /etc/conf.d/ntop 1. Needs QUOTES on the parameter list. It is being parsed as "-u" ie: NTOP_OPTS="-u ntop -P /var/lib/ntop"
fixed - thanks Alan.