I was trying to emerge system. First I had a different problem which seems to be quite common with OpenSSL, so I had to emerge perl. Then I tried emerge system again and OpenSSL worked, but when it got up to j2re-1.4.1 (or something, I'm not 100% sure that was the package name), it said "unable to untar. Can't change GUID to group 1000 user 1000, no such file j2re-1.4.1/man/ja". That's from memory, so it might not be the exact error, but I got the idea right, and I'm certain about the man/ja and the unable to untar and the fact that it was trying to chown to the regular users on a non-existent file. I tried USE="-java -jikes" emerge system and it worked (so far). Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: What I did was: 1. Download stage2 for pentium4, untar it, chroot, etc. 2. set the USE flags to include "java jikes" 3. emerge perl to fix known issue. 4. emerge system Actual Results: Came up with error about tar unsuccesfully trying to chown a nonexist file (man/ja) to the user and group with the IDs 1000. Expected Results: Emerged normally Portage 2.0.50-r5 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22-xfs) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22-xfs i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bidi bindist crypt cups directfb emacs encode fbcon foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 icc imlib java jikes jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd tidy truetype usb wxwindows x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
this is a problem with the gcc/glibc on the stage3(maybe2) tarball of the 2004.1 release, if you upgrade you gcc glibc first -> emerge glibc gcc --oneshot it will be able to unpack it without problems and you can continue to emerge system without problems
*** Bug 55639 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 53960 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
