This is right after a clean install of 1.4_rc2 and emerging the latest xfree (4.2.9.blah) I have tried this emerge multiple times. I even tried emerging file-roller seperately to no avail. I Have tried reducing the compiler flags also just in case I was doing something wrong (I tried -O2 -pipe -march=pentium4). I was not able to complete the emerge under any circumstances. I tried redirecting the complete output to a file (using >) but the errors are still displayed to screen so what is included is what I was able to write down on paper before I booted back into windows for this bug report. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge gnome or emerge file-roller Actual Results: Failed to create /root/.gconf.d: Permission Denied /bin/install: cannot stat 'file-roller-c.omf.out' No such file or directory make[4]: *** [install_data_hook-omf] Error 1 make[3]: *** [install_data_am] Error 2 make[2]: *** [install_am] Error 2 make[1]: *** [install_recursive] Error 1 make: *** [install_recursive] Error 1 !!!ERROR2: app-arch/file-roller-2.2.1 failed !!!Function einstall line 348, Exit code 2 !!!einstall failed Expected Results: a complete and successful emerge. I hope I chose the right severity level ;)
what is your locale ? output of 'emerge info' ? did you try building with MAKEOPTS="-j1" set ? And no i don't consider individual failures 'blockers', they don't block the whole distro.
try running portage as true root btw (su -)
after trying remerge multiple times and unmerging, gnome was emerged. Now it is working. I am not able to say what the problem was in the first place, all I know is that it suddenly started working. thanks for the tips
not sure what the problem was, closing.
