Thanks all.
Installing portage 2 and uninstalling some other package now I'm able to
update the system.

I've uninstalled xfce, firefox (??!) and kde.

Now the update seems to proceed. Then I'll reinstall everything.

However, I tried emerge belong on my system, but it gave me no output:

"
# equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la in *... ]
#
"
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Jake Moe <jakesaddress@gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 08/13/10 23:50, Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Massimiliano Ziccardi writes:
> >
> >> I'm trying to update my gentoo after a long time.
> > That tends to be more problematic than regular updates.
> >
> >> I tried the update (emerge -uD world) but I got some problem about
> >> conflicting and missing libraries, so I've uninstalled some software.
> > portage 2.2 may ease these things, it does some automatic blocker
> > resolution (does not work always for me, but most of the times). It is
> > still masked, but people use it for far over a year now, and I did not
> > read about big problems.
> >
> >
> >> When it tries to emerge xfce4-panel it always gives this error during
> >> the build process:
> >>
> >> /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la: No such file or directory
> >>
> >> I tried to re-emerge the libxfce4util package, but with no luck : that
> >> file do not exists!!!
> >>
> >> Any idea?
> > Maybe give 'lafilefixer --justfixit' a try? Emerge lafilefixer if you do
> > not have it already.
> >
> > Have you read all he elog messages? They sometimes tell about additional
> > manual steps that have to be done.
> >
> >       Wonko
> Well, on my system, that file does belong to libxfce4util:
>
> jmoe@aus8617 ~ $ equery belongs /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la
> [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib/libxfce4util.la in *... ]
> xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.6.2 (/usr/lib/libxfce4util.la)
>
> What does the screen say when it gets to the install phase of emerge?
> Any errors there, especially with that file?
>
> Jake Moe
>
>