I encountering this error while trying update system (emerge -uDv world). Tried --skipfirst, but then it happen again on next package to merge. first package is sys-libs/ncurses-5.5-r2, next in row app-shells/bash-3.1_p16 I read http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14229 - no help for me. /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.5-r2/work/ncurses-5.5/configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/lib --with-terminfo-dirs=/etc/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo --disable-termcap --with-shared --with-rcs-ids --without-ada --enable-symlinks --enable-const --with-chtype=long --with-mmask-t=long --without-debug --with-gpm --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu configure: error: invalid package name: !!! ERROR: sys-libs/ncurses-5.5-r2 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1526: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 923: Called src_compile ncurses-5.5-r2.ebuild, line 48: Called do_compile ncurses-5.5-r2.ebuild, line 69: Called econf '--libdir=/lib' '--with-terminfo-dirs=/etc/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo' '--disable-termcap' '--with-shared' '--with-rcs-ids' '--without-ada' '--enable-symlinks' '--enable-const' '--with-chtype=long' '--with-mmask-t=long' '--without-debug' '--with-gpm' attaching some more info gfs ~ # env MANPATH=/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/man HOSTNAME=gfs SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=screen LC_ALL=pl_PL.utf8 USER=root PAGER=/usr/bin/less CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/terminfo PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3.6 DISTCC_LOG= PWD=/root EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim DISTCC_VERBOSE=0 DCCC_PATH=/usr/lib/distcc/bin SHLVL=1 HOME=/root LESS=-R -M --shift 5 PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib/portage/pym LOGNAME=root CVS_RSH=ssh GCC_SPECS= LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s INFOPATH=/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.16.1/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/info OPENGL_PROFILE=xorg-x11 G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 gfs ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre7-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 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-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="pl_PL.utf8" LINGUAS="pl en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt ctype cups dba dri eds emboss encode esd expat fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad memlimit mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt quicktime readline sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl sse ssl tcpd tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis xml xmms xsl xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux linguas_pl linguas_en userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY gfs ~ # locale LANG= LC_CTYPE="pl_PL.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="pl_PL.utf8" LC_TIME="pl_PL.utf8" LC_COLLATE="pl_PL.utf8" LC_MONETARY="pl_PL.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="pl_PL.utf8" LC_PAPER="pl_PL.utf8" LC_NAME="pl_PL.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="pl_PL.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="pl_PL.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="pl_PL.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="pl_PL.utf8" LC_ALL=pl_PL.utf8
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123342 ***
