localhost-2 user # emerge --sync Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2006 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' ........................................ Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2006 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' ............... Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2006 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' ......................... Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2007 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move' s='/var/db SLOT move' S='binary SLOT move' p='update /etc/portage/package.*' ............... @Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4358, in ? retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4069, in emerge_main portage.global_updates(settings, trees, mtimedb["updates"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6910, in global_updates trees["/"]["vartree"].dbapi.move_ent(update_cmd) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 4291, in move_ent os.rename(origpath, newpath) OSError: [Errno 18] Invalid cross-device link