I got down to emerge-webrsync and discovered an error in portage/make.conf
on line 21 non-existent server then emerge-webrsync tried to get a time
stamp and then speakup died.
I have a single ssd slot in this machine and may be able to attach the
gentoo ssd to the computer by usb so I can recover contents of my
make.conf file and find out what happened in there. It will be a long way
back to chroot before I can try this again and that's not happening today
due to space weather. The computer will be off until tomorrow and
disconnected.
