On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:08:32 -0400
"James Homuth" <james@the-jdh.com> wrote:

> During an update attempt this afternoon, these little surprises were
> waiting for me. I took a look at the archives, and naturally, google,
> but all I found were lots of the same error, and no information on
> it/what's broken. Anyone else having this particular problem? The
> block errors are below.
> 
> [blocks B     ] sys-libs/ss (is blocking
> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2)
> 
> [blocks B     ] <sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41 (is blocking
> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2)
> 
> [blocks B     ] sys-libs/com_err (is blocking
> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2)
> 
> [blocks B     ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs (is blocking
> sys-libs/ss-1.40.9,
> sys-libs/com_err-1.40.9)                                   
> 
> This was during an emerge --update world.
> 
> 

emerge -C e2fsprogs, ss, com_err && emerge -1 e2fsprogs 

e2fsprogs is being restructured, which is causing the problem.