Tried 2x to update kde to kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r3 with MAKEOPTS="-j2", but failed. Switched to -j1 and it works. Here are the errors: 1st time: mkdir -p -- /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/image//usr/kde/3.3/share/doc/HTML/en/kwrite /bin/install -c -p -m 644 index.docbook /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/image//usr/kde/3.3/share/doc/HTML/en/kwrite/index.docbook /bin/sh ../../admin/mkinstalldirs /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/image//usr/kde/3.3/share/doc/HTML/en/kwrite /bin/install -c -p -m 644 index.cache.bz2 /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/image//usr/kde/3.3/share/doc/HTML/en/kwrite/ /bin/sh: line 1: 29765 Segmentation fault /bin/install -c -p -m 644 index.cache.bz2 /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/image//us r/kde/3.3/share/doc/HTML/en/kwrite/ make[3]: *** [install-docs] Error 139 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/work/kdebase-3.3.2/doc/kwrite' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/work/kdebase-3.3.2/doc/kwrite' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/work/kdebase-3.3.2/doc' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r3 failed. !!! Function kde_src_install, Line 191, Exitcode 2 !!! died running make install, kde_src_install:make !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. 2nd time: /bin/sh ../../admin/mkinstalldirs /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/image//usr/kde/3.3/share/doc/HTML/en/kwrite mkdir -p -- /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/image//usr/kde/3.3/share/doc/HTML/en/kwrite /bin/install -c -p -m 644 index.docbook /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/image//usr/kde/3.3/share/doc/HTML/en/kwrite/index.docbook /bin/sh ../../admin/mkinstalldirs /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/image//usr/kde/3.3/share/doc/HTML/en/kwrite /bin/install -c -p -m 644 index.cache.bz2 /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/image//usr/kde/3.3/share/doc/HTML/en/kwrite/ /bin/sh: line 1: 29765 Segmentation fault /bin/install -c -p -m 644 index.cache.bz2 /var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/image//us r/kde/3.3/share/doc/HTML/en/kwrite/ make[3]: *** [install-docs] Error 139 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/work/kdebase-3.3.2/doc/kwrite' make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/work/kdebase-3.3.2/doc/kwrite' make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/kdebase-3.3.2-r3/work/kdebase-3.3.2/doc' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r3 failed. !!! Function kde_src_install, Line 191, Exitcode 2 !!! died running make install, kde_src_install:make !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-hardened-r14 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-hardened-r14 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 6 2005, 16:34:26)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] 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="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" 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/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://mir1.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi aim alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts blas cardbus cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd ethereal fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 jai java javascript jimi jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww live mad mbox mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-s ncurses network nls no-old-linux ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real samba scanner sdl slp smime snmp spell sse sse2 ssl subversion svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis webdav wifi xanim xfs xine xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Error 139 is a segfault it segfaulted during src_install() where -j# is not used chances are you should look into hardware issues
Ok, yes : I use a new notebook since 6 weeks, but the other 2 big changes were using reiserfs for the whole system (before I used xfs for / all except /var and had have a separate /var with reiserfs for the immense number of files portage and others are using) and secondly I use the hardened-sources instead of gentoo.sources. I will close this bug and try to find out the problem.