<snip> porkoo rockoo # emerge xmame Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) games-emulation/xmame-0.81.1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) xmame-0.81.1.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking xmame-0.81.1.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/xmame-0.81.1/work * Applying 0.81.1-glx-fix.patch... [ ok ] esd alsa arts sdl xv ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /.distcc/lock/cpu_localhost_0 distcc[6731] (dcc_open_lockfile) ERROR: failed to creat /.distcc/lock/cpu_localh ost_0: Permission denied distcc[6731] (dcc_lock_one) ERROR: failed to lock ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /.distcc/state/binstate_6731 distcc[6731] (dcc_open_state) ERROR: failed to open /.distcc/state/binstate_6731 : Permission denied ACCESS DENIED unlink: /.distcc/state/binstate_6731 distcc[6731] (dcc_remove_state_file) Warning: failed to unlink /.distcc/state/bi nstate_6731: Permission denied >>> Source unpacked. --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --------------------------- LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-games-emulation_-_xmame-0.81.1-6649.log" open_wr: /.distcc/lock/cpu_localhost_0 open_wr: /.distcc/state/binstate_6731 unlink: /.distcc/state/binstate_6731 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- porkoo rockoo # </snap> <snip> porkoo rockoo # emerge info Portage 2.0.51_pre3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.5-love5) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-love5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.9 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control /var/www/localhost/htdocs//mythweb/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo/ http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.netnitco.net/ ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.samerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d aalib adns aim alsa amd apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid async autofs avi berkdb cdr chroot clamav crypt cups dillo directfb dv encode escreen esd ethereal etwin faad ffmpeg foomaticdb gdbm gif glut gpm gtk gtk2 hbci imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 jabber java jpeg lcd libg++ libwww lua lufsusermount mad mikmod mldonkeypango mmx motif mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls oav oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcap pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl skey slang sll speex spell ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype vim-with-x x86 xchattext xface xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid yahoo zlib" </snap>
if you have DISTCC_DIR or PORTAGE_TMPDIR uncommented in your make.conf file, comment them and try again.
as u requested - in make.conf changed DISTCC_DIR="${PORT_TMPDIR}/.distcc to #DISTCC_DIR="${PORT_TMPDIR}/.distcc -> now it works fine - thx :)