When building a new system, if the shadow package is not installed, then the openldap emerge will fail. It depends on groupadd, which is apart of the shadow package. If it isn't installed, then the post install part of the ebuild exits out because it cannot add an openldap related group. emerge --info.... Portage 2.1.1_pre4-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6/vanilla, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.12 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 Last Sync: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:52:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0.0_rc1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/" LANG="C" LINGUAS="" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 apm aqua_theme arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bootsplash cairo carbone_theme cddb cdparanoia cdrom cli cluster codecs crypt css cups dbus dga dhcp divx4linux dlloader dri dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd ethereal evo evo2 fb fbcon fbdev ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gkrellm glitz gnokii gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 h323 ieee1394 imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 irda irmc isdnlog jpeg kde kdepim kerberos kernel_linux ldap libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg musepack musicbrainz mysql ncurses netboot nls nokia6600 nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openssh oss pam pcre pda pdflib perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection sametime scanner sdl server session slp sms sndfile spell spl sse ssl syslog tcpd theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userland_GNU vcd video_cards_neomagic videos vidix vorbis wifi win32codecs x11vnc xcomposite xine xinerama xml xmms xorg xscreensaver xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 142637 ***
