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