Seems like a clean install of Gentoo 2006.0 and installing vixie-cron. The installation fails due to a missing account. The user cron is missing from the system. And the installation works if I create it manually.
Maybe you could include some error messages and steps to reproduce? vixie-cron inherits cron eclass which RDEPENDs on sys-process/cronbase which creates the needed user before vixie-cron gets compiled. So, sorry - not possible under normal circumstances.
I just reproduced this on a fresh ppc 2006.0 stage3 install with a fresh (as of 16:00 UTC) rsync'd tree. >>> Install vixie-cron-4.1-r8 into /var/tmp/portage/vixie-cron-4.1-r8/image/ category sys-process install: invalid group `cron' touch: cannot touch `/var/tmp/portage/vixie-cron-4.1-r8/image///var/spool/cron/crontabs/.keep': No such file or directory !!! ERROR: sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r8 failed. !!! Function keepdir, Line 332, Exitcode 1 !!! Failed to create .keep in /var/tmp/portage/vixie-cron-4.1-r8/image///var/spool/cron/crontabs !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. (chroot) livecd linux # emerge -pv cronbase These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] sys-process/cronbase-0.3.2 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB (chroot) livecd linux # grep cron /etc/passwd (chroot) livecd linux # After re-emerging cronbase, I have the 'cron' user and vixie-cron installs without a problem.
It looks like the stage I used (stage3-g4-2006.0) is broken. sys-process/cronbase is installed but there is no 'cron' user in /etc/passwd.
Fixed in 2006.1.
