gentoo # more 1727-ksh-93.20030422.log setup unpack >>> Unpacking source... nls >>> Unpacking INIT.2003-04-22.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/ksh-93.20030422/ work /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1225: 23861 Erreur de segmentation tar ${ta rvars} -xzf ${DISTDIR}/${x} !!! ERROR: app-shells/ksh-93.20030422 failed. !!! Function unpack, Line 277, Exitcode 139 !!! failure unpacking INIT.2003-04-22.tgz gzip: stdout: Broken pipe ----- other example ...... cat 1725-pam_ldap-161.log setup unpack >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking pam_ldap-161.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/pam_ldap-161/work gzip: stdout: Broken pipe /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1178: 31203 Erreur de segmentation tar xz --no-same-owner -f ${DISTDIR}/${x} !!! ERROR: net-libs/pam_ldap-161 failed. !!! Function unpack, Line 271, Exitcode 139 !!! failure unpacking pam_ldap-161.tar.gz --- other example ---- tar -xvf linux-2.4.21.tar segmentation fault Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. I have not do anything special !! I don't understood nothing else! here's my emerge info : Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-1.0, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.2.5-r2,2.2.5-r8) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21-pre5-ac2 i686 AuthenticAMD GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control -/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /opt/jakarta/tomcat/conf /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv arts berkdb bonobo cdr directfb esd gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtkhtml guile imlib java kde ldap libwww motif mozilla mysql nas nls oggvorbis opengl pam perl png python qt readline sdl slang snmp ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff X acl imap samba zlib -gnome-libs" COMPILER="" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon -march=athlon -pipe -m3dnow " CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon -march=athlon -pipe -m3dnow " ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache mirror" thanks to help me i excuse me for my english i try to do better the next time !!
download stage1 or 2 or 3, then mount loopback and copy /bin/tar from cd. if you'd like you can also download livecd and fix.
alternatively, try grabbing the prebuilt pkg here: http://wh0rd.org/gentoo/pkgdir-686-gcc2-glibc-2.2/sys-apps/tar-1.13.25-r3.tbz2
closing as fixed