KDEinit error after emerge portage

[yonndur]

I'm using 3.3 mini on a homebuilt sempron2600. I've used several distros but am a novice with sabayon.
I did a emerge --sync today and when that completed successfully the terminal message was that it was highly recommended to emerge portage. Of course after that kde was broken
I followed the thread here viewtopic.php?f=55&t=3078&hilit=can%27t+start+kdeinit
but the steps there don't work-maybe that's because that thread is from the begining of the year and files have changed?
When I try to do emerge =x11 - libs/qt-3.3.6-r4 I get back a message that that's not a valid package. I'm not in my sabayon install right now.
Is there a relatively simple way to fix this problem? TIA

[wolfden]

what else did you do?
an
emerge --sync
emerge portage

isn't going break KDEinit

Have you thought about getting 3.4 mini instead?

Make sure you check you md5sum and burn the disk at low speeds.

[yonndur]

From the reading I've done it seems like updates to qt & dbus have broken kde as seen in other threads at this forum-like the one I included in my previous post, and I do recall seeing dbus & qt listed as emerge portage was finishing.
Also gentoo/sabayon claims this is a install once distro, and you're saying it really isn't.
I did break my system by doing emerge portage-and I didn't emerge or change anything else.

I can't get kde to start again & fluxbbox doesn't have the features I need so I'll just install zenwalk over this.

Moderator fell free to delete this thread.

[wolfden]

Your saying two different things

things got updated, things didn't get updated -- which is it?

Yes it can be a one time install, but you need the knowledge to operate it. This isn't an easy distro for people to just use in 5 minutes. It has a learning curve.

emerge --sync <--only updates your package list

emerge portage only installs latest portage, it effects KDE none