My $HOME is on a root squashed nfs... When I run "sudo emerge -1a glibc" from within my login directory it fails the preinst tests because /bin/ls trys to list my home dir which "root" isn't allowed to do on a root squashed nfs. Reproducible: Always
fixed in cvs http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.6.1.ebuild?r1=1.23&r2=1.24 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.7-r2.ebuild?r1=1.7&r2=1.8 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.8_p20080602.ebuild?r1=1.3&r2=1.4