I did "emerge -pve world", one package fails to compile. I fixed it and did "emerge --resume". When it emerges "sys-apps/portage" it restarts emerging with "emerge --resume" and starts to compile sys-apps/portage again. And again, again, again....... emerge --info below: Portage 2203-svn (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-nitro-git12 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-nitro-git12 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -funroll-loops -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" 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/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -funroll-loops -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ rsync://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" USE="x86 aac authfile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cgi cli curl divx4linux dri eds encode esd expat fastcgi gif gstreamer imlib isdnlog jpeg libwww maildir mmx motif mp3 mpeg mpm-worker ncurses nls nptl ogg pam pam-mysql pcre perl png pppd pwdb python readline reflection sasl session sse sse2 tcpd threads truetype tru etype-fonts type1-fonts udev userlocales v4l vhosts vorbis xml xorg zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 131207 ***