On trying to emerge kde, the process fails at some stage of compiling kdelibs giving the following errors on the shell: . . . open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/qt_plugins_3.3rc.tmp open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qt_plugins_3.3rc.lock open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/qt_plugins_3.3rc.tmp open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qt_plugins_3.3rc.lock open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/qt_plugins_3.3rc.tmp open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qt_plugins_3.3rc.lock open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/qt_plugins_3.3rc.tmp open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qt_plugins_3.3rc.lock . . . . This problem appeared after upgrading QT to 3.3.2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerged Qt 2.emerge kde 3. Actual Results: Errors as above shown on the shell. There are many files in /tmp named sandbox-kde-base_-_kdelibs-3.2.3-r1-NNNNN.log. Contents of said files are same as error message above. Expected Results: installed an upgraded version of kde Output from emerge info: System uname: 2.6.6-love4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" 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/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.pacific.net.au/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dfx 3dnow X aalib alsa apm avi cdr crypt dga directfb encode esd fbcon foomaticdb gif gpm gtk imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mailbox maildir mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sasl sdl slang smooth spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
SOLVED: bash# FEATURES="-sandbox" emerge QT kde That did it. Although I suspect it isnt supposed to work that way. Thanks
