Platform is SUSE 10 Enterprise. The `emerge -u system' step causes portage-2.2.00.13405 to be emerged. After that there are 25 packages to emerge. The first one of those is diffutils. Emerging fails early with >>> Source unpacked in /local/scratch/portage/sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7-r2/work ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /var/opt/quest/vas/vasd/vas_misc.vdb ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /var/opt/quest/vas/vasd/vas_ident.vdb ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /var/opt/quest/vas/vasd/vas_misc.vdb ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /var/opt/quest/vas/vasd/vas_ident.vdb >>> Compiling source in /local/scratch/portage/sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7-r2/work/diffutils-2.8.7 ... * econf: updating diffutils-2.8.7/config/config.guess with /local/tmp/q/usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating diffutils-2.8.7/config/config.sub with /local/tmp/q/usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/local/tmp/q/usr --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/local/tmp/q/usr/share/man --infodir=/local/tmp/q/usr/share/info --datadir=/local/tmp/q/usr/share --sysconfdir=/local/tmp/q/etc --localstatedir=/local/tmp/q/var/lib --disable-nls ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /var/opt/quest/vas/vasd/vas_misc.vdb ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /var/opt/quest/vas/vasd/vas_ident.vdb ./configure: /local/tmp/q/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/sed: /local/tmp/q/tmp/usr/bin/bash: bad interpreter: No such file or directory ./configure: /local/tmp/q/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/sed: /local/tmp/q/tmp/usr/bin/bash: bad interpreter: No such file or directory ./configure: /local/tmp/q/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/sed: /local/tmp/q/tmp/usr/bin/bash: bad interpreter: No such file or directory ./configure: /local/tmp/q/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/sed: /local/tmp/q/tmp/usr/bin/bash: bad interpreter: No such file or directory ./configure: /local/tmp/q/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/sed: /local/tmp/q/tmp/usr/bin/bash: bad interpreter: No such file or directory configure: error: cannot find macro directory `m4' ./configure: /local/tmp/q/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/sed: /local/tmp/q/tmp/usr/bin/bash: bad interpreter: No such file or directory ./configure: /local/tmp/q/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild-helpers/sed: /local/tmp/q/tmp/usr/bin/bash: bad interpreter: No such file or directory !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support: !!! /local/scratch/portage/sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7-r2/work/diffutils-2.8.7/config.log * ERROR: sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7-r2 failed:
that stupid sed wrapper should be dead, which is the bug...
I think this was fixed by now.
