zealot ~ # emerge sun-jdk Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.07 to / >>> checking ebuild checksums ;-) >>> checking auxfile checksums ;-) >>> checking miscfile checksums ;-) >>> checking jdk-1_5_0_07-linux-amd64.bin ;-) >>> Unpacking source... /usr/portage/dev-java/sun-jdk/sun-jdk-1.5.0.07.ebuild: line 107: ./install.sfx: cannot execute binary file !!! ERROR: dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.07 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1539: Called dyn_unpack ebuild.sh, line 711: Called src_unpack sun-jdk-1.5.0.07.ebuild, line 107: Called die !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. zealot ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 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-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 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=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -msse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer nodoc noinfo parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa amd64 apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt ctype cups dba dlloader dri eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imlib ipv6 isdnlog javamail jpeg kde kernel_linux lcms libg++ libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad memlimit mikmod mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session simplexml slang soap sockets spell spl ssl tcltk tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb userland_GNU vorbis xml xml2 xmms xorg xpm xsl xv zlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse video_cards_radeon video_cards_fglrx video_cards_vesa video_cards_dri" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
I know I've seen this before, but I'm not remembering what the cause / solution is off hand. Is the partition that /var/tmp/portage on full? Perhaps you could try to rm -r /var/tmp/portage/sun-jdk-1.5* to clean out stale build files as well.
Possibly misconfigured system profile