wierd problems emerge, compile process always locks up.

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wierd problems emerge, compile process always locks up somewhere!!

I have tried compiling mysql and php, and the compile process just locks up randomly, sometimes it the beginning, sometimes later, its everytime diffrent, but it never finishes emerge, compile process, it just get stuck, and freeze/stop.

Then I spawn 2nd shell, and login i do a ps aux
I will see this:
root 15389 0.0 0.0 0 0 pts/0 Z 03:07 0:00 [sed <defunct>]
root 15388 0.0 0.2 1416 304 pts/0 T 03:07 0:00 sed -e 1s/^X// -e s/\([\\`\\"$\\\\]\)/\\\1/g

if I killall -9 sed, it will continue, but I expect that doing this, I will break something ?
Anyways this happens when i compile mysql, and php.
And it stops everytime at a diffrent place.
What is GOING wrong ? I am so clueless, since this problem is just too weird. And my GENTOO was working perfectly in the beginning, I installed from stage 1, compiled php apache, mysql without problems before, but now without any changes to the box, all these problems appear!

clueless nFz

[Aruspex]

Is it always sed that is defunct? If so, maybe that is a good place to start checking things out.
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