I'm fighting with this for a long time. I don't have any idea, what is wrong. Everything build ok, but only glibc fails. Here are some details: if test -r /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.3.20040420/image//usr/include/gnu/stubs.h && cmp -s /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.3.20040420/work/glibc-2.3.2/buildhere/stubs.h /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.3.20040420/image//usr/include/gnu/stubs.h; \ then echo 'stubs.h unchanged'; \ else /bin/install -c -m 644 /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.3.20040420/work/glibc-2.3.2/buildhere/stubs.h /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.3.20040420/image//usr/include/gnu/stubs.h; fi rm -f /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.3.20040420/work/glibc-2.3.2/buildhere/stubs.h /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.3.20040420/work/glibc-2.3.2/buildhere/elf/sln /var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.3.20040420/work/glibc-2.3.2/buildhere/elf/symlink.list make[1]: *** [install-symbolic-link] Killed make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.3.20040420/work/glibc-2.3.2' make: *** [install] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/glibc-2.3.3.20040420/work/glibc-2.3.2/buildhere' !!! ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.3.3.20040420 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 596, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) And emerge -info: marka root # emerge --info Portage 2.0.50-r8 (hardened-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.4-hardened-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.4-hardened-r3 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.13 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl berkdb caps chroot crypt doc gdbm hardened kerberos libwww mmx ncurses nls pam perl pic pie prelude propolice python readline ruby ssl tcpd x86 zlib" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -U glibc
sounds like a kernel problem review `dmesg` and/or upgrade your kernel