sudo /usr/bin/catalyst2 -V -a -c conf/catalyst.conf -f specs/amd64/my-stage4.spec Gentoo Catalyst, version 2.0_rc5 Copyright 2003-2005 The Gentoo Foundation Distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2 Using command line specified Catalyst configuration file, conf/catalyst.conf Setting sharedir to config file value "/usr/lib/catalyst2" Setting snapshot_cache to default value "/var/tmp/catalyst2/snapshot_cache" Setting storedir to config file value "/home/rajiv/infrastructure/installer/catalyst" Setting portdir to default value "/usr/portage" Setting distdir to config file value "/usr/portage/distfiles" Setting options to config file value "pkgcache kerncache seedcache snapcache" Package cache support enabled. Snapshot cache support enabled. Seed cache support enabled. Kernel cache support enabled. Envscript support enabled. Using target: stage4 Building natively for amd64 MD5 (/home/rajiv/infrastructure/installer/catalyst/snapshots/portage-20050709.tar.bz2) = 736ac979fc7e2b1608ed878c50b7a57a SHA (/home/rajiv/infrastructure/installer/catalyst/snapshots/portage-20050709.tar.bz2) = f9d375069df98e48680ea22a7b121a3abf17e005 Caching snapshot to /var/tmp/catalyst2/snapshot_cache/20050709/ MD5 (/home/rajiv/infrastructure/installer/catalyst/builds/default/stage3-amd64-2005.1-r1.tar.bz2) = 2d096986ba2324b0d53bb652104e30b4 SHA (/home/rajiv/infrastructure/installer/catalyst/builds/default/stage3-amd64-2005.1-r1.tar.bz2) = 09bbfc8e591dedd5afe82288f8462da37a0001ab Source path set to /home/rajiv/infrastructure/installer/catalyst/builds/default/stage3-amd64-2005.1-r1.tar.bz2 The autoresume path is /home/rajiv/infrastructure/installer/catalyst/tmp/default/.autoresume-stage4-amd64-20051206.1/ Location of the package cache is /home/rajiv/infrastructure/installer/catalyst/packages/default/stage4-amd64-20051206.1/ Checking for processes running in chroot and killing them. Running action sequence: unpack Resume point detected, skipping unpack operation... Running action sequence: unpack_snapshot Valid snapshot cache, skipping unpack of portage tree ... Running action sequence: config_profile_link Configuring profile link... ln: creating symbolic link `/home/rajiv/infrastructure/installer/catalyst/tmp/default/stage4-amd64-20051206.1//etc/make.profile' to `../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.1': No such file or directory !!! catalyst: Error creating profile link Catalyst aborting.... even if i rm -rf /home/rajiv/infrastructure/installer/catalyst/tmp/default/.autoresume-stage4-amd64-20051206.1/ the same thing happens.
Do me a favor and delete your snapshot_cache and try running it again. I had a similar problem and I believe that clearing the snapshot cache fixed it for me. I didn't report it since I could never reproduce it.
Added to CVS in version 2.0_rc6
