Hi, Here is the progress report on the error. After having read all your answers I did the following:
catalyst -s 20131229 grabbed a new stage3 dated 20131226 from a gentoo mirror and then: 1. rebuilt a new stage1 based on the seed stage above 2. rebuild a new stage2 based ong the stage1 above 3 rebuilt a new stage3 based on the stage2 above and now the stage4 stops at the same libgnomecanvas package. http://bpaste.net/show/162890/ The spec for stage4 is as follows: http://bpaste.net/show/162892/ any help would be greately appreciated Thank you very much Ben -- best regards linforpros
