System has full kde install. Attempting to unmerge arts (emerge --unmerge arts) causes all kde-related entries in /etc/ld.so.conf to be removed. If you re-add the entries manually, running env-update wipes them out again. The only way to get things back to normal is to reload arts. # cat /etc/gentoo-release Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 # emerge --info Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /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="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X alsa apache2 audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl doc dts dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde lcms libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mhash mng mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl spell ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userlocales vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
This is probably related to bug 104174. Anyway, you should use a safer procedure to remove arts: set "-arts" in USE, reemerge kdelibs and uninstall arts. It is also recommended to run revdep-rebuild in these situations. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104174 ***