first i tried to "emerge zetagrid" but it failed while emerging dev-java/blackdown-jre-1.4.1 Then i tried a "emerge jre" but it failed with same error-message Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge jre 2. 3. Actual Results: # emerge jre Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) dev-java/blackdown-jre-1.4.1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin >>> md5 src_uri ;-) j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc2.95.bin >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking j2re-1.4.1-01-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin... tar: j2re1.4.1/man/ja: Cannot change ownership to uid 1000, gid 1000: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors !!! ERROR: dev-java/blackdown-jre-1.4.1 failed. !!! Function src_unpack, Line 50, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Expected Results: install a java-runtime-environment Portage 2.0.50-r5 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4. 25_pre7-gss-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-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="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio. org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bzlib crypt cups encode ethereal fbcom foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png prelude python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang snmp sockets spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vhosts x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
this is a problem with older glibc's, please upgrade your glibc too glibc-2.3.3.2004042 (latest stable) might wanna run emerge sync && emerge -uvD world from time to time
