Don't ask me why on this earth I did have a /nonexistent directory! Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.5.0-asneeded, glibc-2.11.1-r0, 2.6.34 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-i686-Quad-Core_AMD_Opteron-tm-_Processor_2350-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 20 May 2010 20:05:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6-r1, 1.5-r1, 1.6.3-r1, 1.7.9-r2, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.0 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.33 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/lib/hsqldb /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/spool/torque /var/vpopmail/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/cache/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms split-log strict test test-fail-continue unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j14" PKGDIR="/var/spool/portage/packages" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/cache/portage/tree-tinderbox" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv ipv6 java5 java6 modules mudflap ncurses nls nostatic nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pppd python qt3support readline reflection ruby session spl ssl sysfs tcpd unicode vhosts x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias auth_digest" ELIBC="glibc" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 jruby ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
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(In reply to comment #0) > Don't ask me why on this earth I did have a /nonexistent directory! > We can assume that in pretty much any case there is no such directory. Exceptions prove the rule. ;) I'll close this as WORKSFORME. The only feasible fix is to change that name to /nonexistentlol5645254325j43i5 or something similarly silly but even then we will not have a 100% chance that noone has such a directory. :)
This _is_ a problem because we have _something_ in the tree that during one of its phases creates that directory… otherwise the tinderbox wouldn't have it there.
$ grep -r /nonexistent /usr/portage/ /usr/portage/app-admin/syslogread/syslogread-0.92.ebuild: enewuser syslog -1 -1 /nonexistent syslog /usr/portage/net-dns/djbdns/djbdns-1.05-r17.ebuild: enewuser dnscache -1 -1 /nonexistent nofiles /usr/portage/net-dns/djbdns/djbdns-1.05-r17.ebuild: enewuser dnslog -1 -1 /nonexistent nofiles /usr/portage/net-dns/djbdns/djbdns-1.05-r17.ebuild: enewuser tinydns -1 -1 /nonexistent nofiles # @FUNCTION: enewuser # @USAGE: <user> [uid] [shell] [homedir] [groups] [params] According to the documentation of enewuser, the ebuilds tagged by that grep request a home directory of /nonexistent for the new users. As I read the documentation and associated code of enewuser, omitting the home directory would have chosen a value of /dev/null.
(In reply to comment #2) > I'll close this as WORKSFORME. The only feasible fix is to change that name to > /nonexistentlol5645254325j43i5 or something similarly silly but even then we > will not have a 100% chance that noone has such a directory. :) We could rename it to something like /nonexistent_rdoc_tests and greatly reduce the problem and fix the known cases of breakage with other packages. Fixed in rdoc-2.5.9.
