In /etc/init.d/bootmisc baselayout uses sysctl with the option -q. As you can see on http://procps.sourceforge.net/changelog.html this option was added in 3.2.2. Therefore baselayout should depend on >=procps-3.2.2. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: This error: Unknown parameter "-q" usage: sysctl [-n] [-e] variable ... sysctl [-n] [-e] [-q] -w variable=value ... sysctl [-n] [-e] -a sysctl [-n] [-e] [-q] -p <file> (default /etc/sysctl.conf) sysctl [-n] [-e] -A occures during booting At least baselayout-1.11.3 and baselayout-1.12.0_pre3 are affected.
Your system is outdated. All procps versions in portage are >3.2.2
Indeed... But I think (as a dial-in slave) Gentoo should work without emerge system or emerge world.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83083 ***