On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 14:28 +0000, Gavin Seddon wrote:
> Hi,
> I have been updating my system.  Firstly I used 'emerge --sync' then
> 'emerge --update world'.  However, the update stops with a segmentation
> fault.  Is this a big problem that needs fixing and how?
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Dr Gavin Seddon
> School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 
> University of Manchester
> Oxford Road, Manchester 
> M13 9PL, U.K.
> 

If it's segfaulting at the Updating world file -X% area, I used to have
the same problem.  It was solved by doing an:

emerge -euDv portage

I'm not sure what was mal-adjusted, but that did sort the problem out.  

Best of luck

B. Vance

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