during an world update coreutils failed to compile giving me errors regarding permisions. The problem is that if I try to get over this problem the emerge warns me about this: Calculating world dependencies ...done! INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 INCOMPLETE MERGE: /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/-MERGING-coreutils-5.2.1-r2 [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r2 [5.2.1] [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.0-r7 [2.05b-r9] Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u coreutils 2. 3. Actual Results: usr/bin/test usr/bin/tsort usr/bin/unexpand usr/bin/users >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/coreutils-5.2.1-r2/image/ >>> Merging sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r2 to / !!! Cannot write to '/bin'. !!! Please check permissions and directories for broken symlinks. !!! You may start the merge process again by using ebuild: !!! ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1-r2.ebuild merge !!! And finish by running this: env-update issued the command: ebuild /usr/portage/sys-apps/coreutils/coreutils-5.2.1-r2.ebuild merge I get the same result. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.26-gentoo-r13 i586) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r13 i586 Pentium MMX Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.13,sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r2,sys-devel/automake-1.9.3,sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6,sys-devel/automake-1.5,sys-devel/automake-1.6.3,sys-devel/automake-1.7.9 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=i386 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" 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 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org 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="apm berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt encode f77 foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python readline sdl spell ssl tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xv zlib"
Is /bin mounted readonly? What are the permissions?
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 2 22:04 /bin Anyway...it does writes the new bins in there but at the end it says it fails.
And you also now that there is enough disk-space and tried to fsck the filesystem to be certain that there is no user-error here?
get back to us and make sure that your drives are sane try this for example: chmod 555 /bin chmod 755 /bin those should not fail
Closing due to old age
