emerge sharutils fails for version 4.2.1-r11 and for the ~amd64 masked version 4.6.2 with an error as follows: >>> /usr/share/man/man1/unshar.1.gz !!! Failed to move /var/tmp/portage/sharutils-4.6.2/image/usr/share/man/man1/uuencode.1.gz to /usr/share/man/man1/uuencode.1.gz !!! [Errno 5] Input/output error The output from emerge --info: Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac acpi aim alsa apache apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bluetooth bonobo bzip2 cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups curl curlwrappers dga dio directfb doc dri dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emacs-w3 emboss emul-linux-x86 encode esd ethereal evo examples exif expat fam fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm ggi gif ginac glut gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtk2html gtkhtml hal icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal lapack lcms ldap leim libedit libwww lirc lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska mikmod mime mng mnogosearch mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi msn mule mysql mysqli nas ncurses nls nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg oggvorbis ole openal opengl osc oscar oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl php plotutils png pppd python qt quicktime radius readline reflection samba scanner sdl session sockets socks5 spell spl sqlite ssl symlink szip tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb v4l vcd vhosts vorbis wifi xface xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xorg xosd xpm xv xvid yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
> !!! [Errno 5] Input/output error Your drive is failing as well... Nothing we could do here. Try running fsck/badblocks scan. Not an ebuild bug.
