I don't think sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r should be marked as Stable. I get the following errors with fdisk -l and cfdisk doesn't pickup the hard drives. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r 2. fdisk -l Actual Results: Unable to seek on /dev/sda Expected Results: Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 18 144553+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 19 516 4000185 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 517 10242 78124095 83 Linux /dev/sda4 10243 14593 34949407+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 12158 97659103+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 12159 18237 48829567+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb3 18238 24321 48869730 83 Linux to fix this, I downgraded to sys-apps/util-linux-2.12q-r3
you neglected to post `emerge info` like the bug report page told you to
Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.11-hardened-r15 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-hardened-r15 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i386 -pipe -fforce-addr" DISTDIR="/home/distfiles/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage//packages/x86/" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage/" SYNC="rsync://64.127.121.98/gentoo-portage" USE="apache2 apm berkdb bzip2 calendar clearpasswd crypt curl dbm dlloader ethereal exiscan exiscan-acl expat extensions ftp gd geoip gif gmp hardened idn imagemagick imap java jpeg libwww maildir mhash mime mmx mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre pdflib perl php pic png python readline snmp soap sockets sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype udev usb userlocales vhosts x86 xml xml2 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
do you have 2.12r or 2.12r-r1 ? your error only occurs when using a hardened toolchain but it should be fixed with 2.12r-r1 ...
