Albert Hopkins <marduk <at> letterboxes.org> writes:
> > > Perhaps you can run strace (or bash -x) on it to see where it's hanging. > # bash -x /usr/sbin/python-updater Simple enough: <snip> + CATPKGVER==sys-apps/man-pages-2.78 + [[ 0 = 2 ]] + [[ CHECK_PYLIBDIR -ne 0 ]] + grep -qe '/usr/\(include\|lib\(32\|64\)\?\)/python2.4' /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/man-pages-2.78/CONTENTS + [[ CHECK_SONAME -ne 0 ]] ++ scanelf -qBN libpython2.4.so.1.0 +++ grep -e '^obj' /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/man-pages-2.78/CONTENTS +++ cut '-d ' -f2 I have already (twice) emerged scanelf (pax-utils 0.1.17). Remember the system only has 128 meg of ram on a P3 (coppermine) machine. Here are the USE flags: USE=" -X pic ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl python php postgres apache2 \ readline bzip2 nptl nptlonly syslog sse mmx hardened gif gpm hal dvd jpeg \ socketspm3 mpeg png spell udev unicode v4l v4l2 win32codecs ral x264 tiff \ usb mjpeg mng snmp wmf pdf dbus wmp mp4 jpeg2k gs -kde -gtk -gnome " thoughts or ideas? James