When I try to emerge gzip, I get an error about an broken pipe. It looks like this: + tar --no-same-owner -xzf /usr/portage/distfiles/makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1428: 4915 Segmentation fault tar ${tarvars} -xzf "${DISTDIR}/${x}" + diefunc unpack 333 139 'failure unpacking makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz' + local funcname=unpack lineno=333 exitcode=139 + shift 3 + echo + echo '!!! ERROR: app-admin/makepasswd-1.10 failed.' !!! ERROR: app-admin/makepasswd-1.10 failed. + echo '!!! Function unpack, Line 333, Exitcode 139' !!! Function unpack, Line 333, Exitcode 139 + echo '!!! failure unpacking makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz' !!! failure unpacking makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz + echo + exit 1 box10 portage # gzip: stdout: Broken pipe box10 portage # Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge an package with ending .tar.gz and you have the problem... Actual Results: nothing... it crashes with segfault and broken pipe-error Expected Results: install do an: emerge makepasswd --debug + set +x + dyn_unpack + trap abort_unpack SIGINT SIGQUIT + local newstuff=no + '[' -e /var/tmp/portage/makepasswd-1.10/work ']' + '[' -e /var/tmp/portage/makepasswd-1.10/work ']' + install -m0700 -d /var/tmp/portage/makepasswd-1.10/work + '[' -d /var/tmp/portage/makepasswd-1.10/work ']' + cd /var/tmp/portage/makepasswd-1.10/work + echo '>>> Unpacking source...' >>> Unpacking source... + src_unpack + '[' makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz '!=' '' ']' + unpack makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz + local x + local y + local myfail + local tarvars + '[' GNU == BSD ']' + tarvars=--no-same-owner + myfail=failure unpacking makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz ++ pwd + echo '>>> Unpacking makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/makepasswd-1.10/work' >>> Unpacking makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/makepasswd-1.10/work ++ echo makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz ++ sed 's:.*\.\(tar\)\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*:\1:' + y=tar + '[' tar == tar ']' + tar --no-same-owner -xzf /usr/portage/distfiles/makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: line 1428: 4915 Segmentation fault tar ${tarvars} -xzf "${DISTDIR}/$ {x}" + diefunc unpack 333 139 'failure unpacking makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz' + local funcname=unpack lineno=333 exitcode=139 + shift 3 + echo + echo '!!! ERROR: app-admin/makepasswd-1.10 failed.' !!! ERROR: app-admin/makepasswd-1.10 failed. + echo '!!! Function unpack, Line 333, Exitcode 139' !!! Function unpack, Line 333, Exitcode 139 + echo '!!! failure unpacking makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz' !!! failure unpacking makepasswd_1.10.orig.tar.gz + echo + exit 1 box10 portage # gzip: stdout: Broken pipe << what's this???? box10 portage # i've played a little with the "ebuild gzip-1.3.3-r2.ebuild unpack" and tracked it down to line 331 in the unpack-fct. i replaced tar ${tarvars} -xzf "${DISTDIR}/${x}" || die "$myfail" with (gzip -dc "${DISTDIR}/${x}" | tar ${tarvars} -x) || die "$myfail" ... same prob is this a bug in bash - environment to small??? ah, yes, my emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.4.26) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" 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/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo crypt cups dga dvd encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
btw: 1) i can re-emerge portage without any problems 2) i replaced bash, tar, gzip from a working system 3) etc-update is uptodate
Try underclocking your system by 20-50 percent. It's possible that you have a chipped core or you're system is overheating.
tar is broken, not portage. Need info to help with this at all.
no, tar and co are _not_ broken. i replaced them from other systems. btw. i replaced more or less the whole base-system from http://dev.gentoo.org/~avenj/bins/ (coreutils, bash, binutilsm, python, .. ) this is very strange: some packages are working, some not...
