it fails whith: rm: cannot remove `/var/tmp/portage/openmotif-2.1.30-r4/image/usr/X11R6/bin/lndir': No such file or directory I know, there is allready bug #38228 (for openmotif-3.1.30-r3) dealing with exactly the same problem, but the bug is still in r4 So I thought opening a new bug is ok. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge rsync 2. emerge -u openmotif Actual Results: [...] installing man pages in doc/man/man5... make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/openmotif-2.1.30-r4/work/motif/doc/man/man5' install -c -m 0444 Traits.5 /var/tmp/portage/openmotif-2.1.30-r4/image//usr/X11R6/man/man7/Traits.7x install -c -m 0444 UIL.5 /var/tmp/portage/openmotif-2.1.30-r4/image//usr/X11R6/man/man7/UIL.7x install -c -m 0444 WML.5 /var/tmp/portage/openmotif-2.1.30-r4/image//usr/X11R6/man/man7/WML.7x install.man in doc/man/man5 done make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/openmotif-2.1.30-r4/work/motif/doc/man/man5' make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/openmotif-2.1.30-r4/work/motif/doc/man' make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/openmotif-2.1.30-r4/work/motif' * Cleaning up X11 stuff rm: cannot remove `/var/tmp/portage/openmotif-2.1.30-r4/image/usr/X11R6/bin/lndir': No such file or directory !!! ERROR: x11-libs/openmotif-2.1.30-r4 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 82, Exitcode 1 !!! rm /var/tmp/portage/openmotif-2.1.30-r4/image/usr/X11R6/bin/lndir Expected Results: successfully emerge kdelibs-2.3 and the other new kde-packages $ emerge info Portage 2.0.50_pre21 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040117-r0, 2.6.0) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0 i686 Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5800 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mmmx -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mmmx -pipe -fforce-addr -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -falign-functions=4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres postgresql python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
can you please post a complete merge log
I did $ cd /tmp $ emerge -u openmotif > emerge_openmotif-2.1.30-r4.log $ emerge -p openmotif These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.1.30-r4 huh! wtf. - it worked! no idea, I tried about four times before :-| thanks anyway :)
so i can't help you ;)