I added some USE flags (e.g. unicode) and did a emerge --update --deep --newuse world ; emerge says it will merge 24 packages, starting with ncurses-5.4-r5 . I tried three times now (once with emerge --ask ncurses only), and got three kernel panics -- I've screendumped the last one. I cannot swore, but I think the first one was different (Kernel Panic:Not syncing) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --update ncurses Actual Results: Console output (via SSH): Compilation seems to work out fine, but at >>> Merging sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r5 to / --- /etc/ --- /etc/env.d/ >>> /etc/env.d/50ncurses --- /etc/terminfo/ --- /etc/terminfo/a/ >>> /etc/terminfo/a/ansi --- /etc/terminfo/d/ >>> /etc/terminfo/d/dumb --- /etc/terminfo/l/ >>> /etc/terminfo/l/linux --- /etc/terminfo/r/ >>> /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt --- /etc/terminfo/s/ and there it hangs. The console shows a "kernel panic", CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode CPU1: Running in modulated clock mode Oops: 0002 [#10] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: eeprom lm85 ic2_sensor i2c_i801 i2c_core ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async ppp_generic slhc CPU: 1752645165 EIP: 0060:[<c01107hb9>] Tainted: G M VLI EFLAGS: 00010002 (2.6.10-gentoo-r6) EIP is at smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x29/0xf0 eax: 3b9f1680 ebx: c04e3488 ecx: 00000000 edx: ecdf6000 esi: ecdf7d84 edi: ecdf66cc ebp: e8b0b018 esp: ecdf66b0 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 616a2edf printig eip: c011411c *pde = 00000000 _ Expected Results: Update ncurses w/o trouble. Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jan 30 2005, 00:00:34)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.21-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/ ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd ethereal f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 hardend imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Today I checked my portage tree and found: * sys-libs/ncurses Latest version available: 5.4-r5 Latest version installed: 5.4-r5 Size of downloaded files: 2,103 kB Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html Description: console display library License: MIT So I guess that ebuild was installed silently when I installed something else... since the system now runs stable as ever, and I'm not able to reproduce the kernel panic I'll mark the bug report INVALID.
