Update to kde-base/kdesdk-kioslaves-3.4.1 failes with following: grep: /usr/lib/libdb-4.1.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libdb-4.1.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libdb-4.1.la' is not a valid libtool archive make[4]: *** [kio_svn.la] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdesdk-kioslaves-3.4.1/work/kdesdk-kioslaves-3.4.1/kioslave/svn' make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdesdk-kioslaves-3.4.1/work/kdesdk-kioslaves-3.4.1/kioslave/svn' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdesdk-kioslaves-3.4.1/work/kdesdk-kioslaves-3.4.1/kioslave' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdesdk-kioslaves-3.4.1/work/kdesdk-kioslaves-3.4.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdesdk-kioslaves-3.4.1 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 166, Exitcode 2 !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. emerge -pv db [ebuild R ] sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2 -bootstrap -doc -java -nocxx -tcltk 0 kB find /usr/lib/ -iname libdb* /usr/lib/libdb_cxx-4.2.a /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.la /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.so /usr/lib/libdb_cxx.so /usr/lib/libdb.a /usr/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a /usr/lib/libdb_cxx-4.2.la /usr/lib/libdb_cxx-4.2.so /usr/lib/libdb-1.so /usr/lib/libdb.so.2 /usr/lib/libdb_cxx.a /usr/lib/libdb1.a /usr/lib/libdb.so /usr/lib/libdb-4.2.a /usr/lib/libdb1.so /usr/lib/libdb1.so.2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u kdesdk-kioslaves 2. 3. Actual Results: emerge failed Expected Results: update kdesdk-kioslaves to kdesdk-kioslaves-3.4.1 emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-e i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-e i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 4 2005, 20:02:21)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] 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, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /home /root /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 /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/src/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org" LANG="de_AT@euro" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/src/distfiles/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dvb dvd dvdread emboss encode esd fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jpeg kde kdexdeltas kerberos libg++ libwww mad md5sum mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext motif mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls nptl ofx ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl pic png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales vorbis xml2 xv xvid zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL
It seems you unmerged db-4.1 but there are still references to it, please try doing a 'revdep-rebuild'.
Revdep-rebuild solved the problem, sorry for this unnecessary bug.