emerge xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 fails: >>> /usr/share/fonts/misc/clB6x12.pcf.gz >>> /usr/share/fonts/misc/8x13B-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz >>> /usr/share/fonts/misc/clB9x15.pcf.gz Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2991, in ? mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1839, in merge retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2562, in doebuild return merge(mysettings["CATEGORY"],mysettings["PF"],mysettings["D"],mysettings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,mysettings,myebuild=mysettings["EBUILD"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2695, in merge return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6670, in merge return self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild,cleanup=cleanup) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6297, in treewalk if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,"",cfgfiledict,mymtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6536, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6536, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6536, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6536, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6551, in mergeme elif stat.S_ISREG(mydmode) or (stat.S_ISLNK(mydmode) and stat.S_ISREG(os.stat(mydest)[stat.ST_MODE])): OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/fonts/misc/encodings.dir' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 Actual Results: emerge fails Expected Results: xorg-x11 should be installed properly Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.50GHz ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib /mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs candy ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://192.168.1.3" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.3/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib accessibility acpi alsa arts audiofile autofs avi berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cscope cups curl devfs dga divx4linux doc dvb dvd dvdr encode f77 fbcon flac flash foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint ginac gpm gps gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jabber jack java javascript jpeg kadu-modules kadu-voice kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pda pdflib perl png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl slang slp spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usb videos vim-with-x wxwindows x86 xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib video_cards_i915 linguas_pl"
I've deleted the /usr/share/fonts/misc/encodings.dir symlink and emerge went through.
Fixed in CVS. The broken symlink will now be replaced silently.
Closing bug.
*** Bug 70740 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 71641 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 72664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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