i wanted to emerge gkrellm-hddtemp which depends on hddtemp: # emerge gkrellm-hddtemp Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 2) app-admin/hddtemp-0.3_beta11 to / keeptemp mv: cannot stat `/var/tmp/portage/hddtemp-0.3_beta11/temp/environment': No such file or directory keepwork >>> md5 src_uri ;-) hddtemp-0.3-beta11.tar.gz >>> Checking hddtemp-0.3-beta11.tar.gz's mtime... >>> hddtemp-0.3-beta11.tar.gz has been updated; recreating WORKDIR... rm: cannot chdir from `.' to `/var/tmp/portage/hddtemp-0.3_beta11/work': Permission denied >>> /usr/portage/app-admin/hddtemp/hddtemp-0.3_beta11.ebuild has been updated; recreating WORKDIR... rm: cannot chdir from `.' to `/var/tmp/portage/hddtemp-0.3_beta11/work': Permission denied install: cannot change permissions of `/var/tmp/portage/hddtemp-0.3_beta11/work': Operation not permitted !!! ERROR: app-admin/hddtemp-0.3_beta11 failed. !!! Function dyn_unpack, Line 514, Exitcode 1 !!! Failed to create dir '/var/tmp/portage/hddtemp-0.3_beta11/work' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge hddtemp # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.4.20040605-r0, 2.6.6-mm3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6-mm3 x86_64 5 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.12.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache keeptemp keepwork sandbox userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa amd64 apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif glx gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls nogcj oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex truetype xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
just found that bug and checked again, it works now :)