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Bug 72419 - emerge fails to open packages
Summary: emerge fails to open packages
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High trivial (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2004-11-24 22:58 UTC by Glenn Enright
Modified: 2004-11-26 10:16 UTC (History)
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Description Glenn Enright 2004-11-24 22:58:37 UTC
Trying to emerge ANY program I get the following error (including 
portage). Anyone have any ideas about what's causing it? Also applies to bzip2, and its not the programs I've tested both they work fine.

>>> Unpacking source...
 * Unpacking kbd-1.12.tar.gz
gzip: /home/archive/distfiles/kbd-1.12.tar.gz: Permission denied
/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 30: 
cd: /var/tmp/portage/kbd-1.12-r2/work/kbd-1.12: No such file or 
directory

Checking the dir tre for my distfiles dir and /var/tmp/portage... seems fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. su to root
2. emerge package
3. failure...
Comment 1 Glenn Enright 2004-11-24 23:18:42 UTC
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=229058

Ran the script at this page and it found no errors. Have been previously operating with no problems using this version, so I dont get why its suddenly broken...
Comment 2 Glenn Enright 2004-11-26 10:16:30 UTC
dont worry. dumb mistake on my part. Its working fine now. :)