serena etc # emerge gnewspost Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 3) app-arch/cfv-1.15 to / dispatch-conf: Config archive dir [/etc/config-archive] must exist; fatal serena etc # happens too after emerge rsync and emerge sync, which both do work.
Additional info: my system is a standard gentoo 1.4 system with ~x86.
when making /etc/config-archive and trying to emerge; following error occurs: root # emerge gentoolkit Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-portage/gentoolkit-0.1.36 to / >>> Merging app-portage/gentoolkit-0.1.36 to / Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2153, in ? mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1357, in merge retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,edebug) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1926, in doebuild return merge(settings["CATEGORY"],settings["PF"],settings["D"],settings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,myebuild=settings["EBUILD"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2045, in merge return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 5137, in merge return self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4755, in treewalk lcfile=open(inforoot+"/COUNTER","w") IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/tmp/portage/gentoolkit-0.1.36/build-info/COUNTER' root #
It was my best option to do what is in README.RESCUE. Guess I can throw this bug away.