emerge -p lsat yields These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] app-admin/lsat-0.9.0 so i did. upon completion i ran lsat Starting LSAT... Getting system information... Running modules... Running checkpkgs module... sh: line 1: /usr/lib/portage/bin/pkglist: No such file or directory Running checkinetd module... Running checkhostsfiles module... Running checkinittab module... Running checklogging module... Running checkset module... Could not create temporary file... : File exists Possible link attack while creating/opening file! : Illegal seek Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge lsat 2. run lsat Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 27 2005, 21:50:46)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.9.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /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="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/home/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/gentoo/" LINGUAS="de da en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 bzlib cddb cdparanoia cdr chroot crypt cscope cups curl djbfft dvd emboss encode esd fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 i8x0 imagemagick imlib imlib2 java jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal libcaca libg++ libwww mad mikmod mime mjpeg mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mysql ncurses nls nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang slp sndfile speedo speex spell sql sse ssl startup-notification subversion svg svga tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb v4l v4l2 vcd vdesktop vim vim-with-x vorbis win32codecs xface xine xml xml2 xosd xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo zeroconf zlib linguas_de linguas_da linguas_en_GB userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
also a new revision has come out 0.9.2 see http://usat.sourceforge.net/
fixed in cvs (0.9.2)
