There were some colons ":" missing after I merged. This generated a lot of errors when I tryed to do something with portage. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge sys-libs/zlib sys-devel/automake dev-libs/expat dev-java/java-config sys-devel/libperl dev-lang/perl sys-devel/libtool sys-devel/gcc-config sys-devel/gcc sys-apps/grep sys-apps/cronbase x11-base/opengl-update app-arch/cabextract app-shells/sash dev-libs/libpcre x11-libs/qt dev-libs/glib 2. 3. Actual Results: /etc/env.d/47kdepaths-3.3.0 was missing some colons on the last line: CONFIG_PROTECT=/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown instead of: CONFIG_PROTECT=/usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown Expected Results: The colons should have been there Portage 2.0.50-r11 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1, 2.6.7-gentoo-r11) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww linguas_de linguas_es mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib"
what is that long emerge command in the steps to reproduce? were you using some kind of installer or something? Roger
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63467 ***