After a successfull compilation of groff and perl, the registration and so the installation of these packages fails. Both with a "Sandbox violation" : open_wr: /var/log/faillog Unfortunately this not only sucks, it prevents me from the upgrade of some packets (notably openssl) to a newer version caused by security advisories. /var/log/faillog exists, but removing it does not help. "Solution" found so far: Backup everything and reinstall gentoo :-( Gentoo version: root@conglom-o ~: cat /etc/gentoo-release Gentoo Base System version 1.4.2.3 (Note: This also happens with release 1.2) Used kernelversion: root@conglom-o ~:uname -a Linux conglom-o.xlk.dyndns.org 2.4.20 #13 Fri Mar 7 16:54:47 CET 2003 i586 AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux CPU: AMD K6-500 MHz RAM: 128 MBytes Versions of packets that caused this error: root@conglom-o ~: emerge search groff [ Results for search key : groff ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-apps/groff Latest version available: 1.18.1-r1 Latest version installed: 1.17.2-r3 Size of downloaded files: 2,197 kB Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html Description: Text formatter used for man pages root@conglom-o ~: emerge search perl Searching... [ Results for search key : perl ] [ Applications found : 16 ] ... snipp ... * sys-devel/perl Latest version available: 5.8.0-r9 Latest version installed: 5.6.1-r7 Size of downloaded files: 10,764 kB Homepage: http://www.perl.org Description: Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
It seems to me, that newer versions of portage fixed this problem.
