* Running emerge --sync ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3724, in ?
    emerge_main()
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 3693, in emerge_main
    action_sync(myopts, myaction)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2734, in action_sync
    chk_updated_cfg_files("/", settings.get("CONFIG_PROTECT","").split())
NameError: global name 'settings' is not defined
 * Problems running emerge --sync