Re: Portage issue

> I'm currently running Sabayon on an Ahtlon 64 x2. When I run emerge
> --sync, it claims that there is an updated version of portage, and I
> should run emerge portage before updating any packages. When I run
> emerge -pv portage I get:
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2 [1.2.18.1] 232 kB [0]
> [ebuild     U ] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 [2.0.1-r5] USE="-bindist
> -gmp -test" 151 kB [0]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.1 [2.1.3.4-r1] USE="-build -doc
> -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl*" 361 kB [0]
> *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself,
>     then resume the merge.
> [ebuild     U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p33 [3.2_p15-r1] USE="nls -afs
> -bashlogger -plugins% -vanilla" 2,564 kB [0]
> [blocks B     ] <sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking
> app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33)
>
> Total: 4 packages (4 upgrades, 1 block), Size of downloads: 3,306 kB
> Portage tree and overlays:
>  [0] /usr/portage
>
>
>
> When I try an emerge --pv world I get a lot of blocked packages:
>
> ....snipped...
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.1 [2.1.3.4-r1] USE="-build -doc
> -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl*" 361 kB [0]
> *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself,
>     then resume the merge.
> [ebuild     U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p33 [3.2_p15-r1] USE="nls -afs
> -bashlogger -plugins% -vanilla" 2,564 kB [0]
> [blocks B     ] media-libs/libdts (is blocking
> media-libs/libdca-0.0.5) [blocks B     ] <sys-fs/udev-115-r1 (is
> blocking sys-fs/device- mapper-1.02.22-r5)
> [blocks B     ] <sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking
> app-shells/bash- 3.2_p33)
> [blocks B     ] kde-base/ksync (is blocking
> kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r10) [blocks B     ]
> dev-util/portatosourceview (is blocking app-portage/portato- 0.8.6.2)
> [blocks B     ] <sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.19-r1 (is blocking
> sys-fs/udev-118-r2)
> [blocks B     ] sys-apps/setarch (is blocking
> sys-apps/util-linux-2.13.1) [blocks B     ] sys-apps/mktemp (is
> blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1) [blocks B     ]
> <media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6 (is blocking
> media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.17) [blocks B     ]
> <sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_rc (is blocking sys-apps/makedev- 3.23.1)
> [blocks B     ] sys-process/schedutils (is blocking sys-apps/util-
> linux-2.13.1)
> [blocks B     ] app-crypt/libgssapi (is blocking
> net-libs/libgssglue-0.1) [blocks B     ] >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.10
> (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5)
>
> Total: 616 packages (569 upgrades, 5 downgrades, 33 new, 9 in new
> slots, 13 blocks), Size of downloads: 2,090,644 kB
> Fetch Restriction: 1 package (1 unsatisfied)
> Portage tree and overlays:
>  [0] /usr/portage
>  [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/sabayon
>
>
> What can be done to resolve these problems so I can bring my system
> up to date.
> Thank you,
> Bob