I wanted to rebuild pulseaudio-13.0 (I had merged it in past May without problems), but I encountered a failure during the unpack phase: * ERROR: media-sound/pulseaudio-13.0::gentoo failed (unpack phase): * unpack: failure unpacking pulseaudio-13.0.tar.xz * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 125: Called src_unpack * environment, line 5007: Called default * phase-functions.sh, line 855: Called default_src_unpack * phase-functions.sh, line 882: Called __eapi0_src_unpack * phase-helpers.sh, line 755: Called unpack 'pulseaudio-13.0.tar.xz' * phase-helpers.sh, line 520: Called __unpack_tar 'xz -d' * phase-helpers.sh, line 361: Called __assert_sigpipe_ok 'unpack: failure unpacking pulseaudio-13.0.tar.xz' * isolated-functions.sh, line 41: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * [[ $x -ne 0 && $x -ne ${PORTAGE_SIGPIPE_STATUS:-141} ]] && die "$@" * From the output I see that tar spits hundreds of "Permission denied" errors: tar: pulseaudio-13.0/scripts: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied tar: pulseaudio-13.0/scripts: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied tar: pulseaudio-13.0/scripts/benchmark_memory_usage.sh: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: pulseaudio-13.0/scripts: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied tar: pulseaudio-13.0/scripts/benchmarks: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory tar: pulseaudio-13.0/scripts: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied tar: pulseaudio-13.0/scripts/benchmarks/.gitignore: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: pulseaudio-13.0/scripts: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied tar: pulseaudio-13.0/scripts/benchmarks/README: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: pulseaudio-13.0/scripts: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied tar: pulseaudio-13.0/scripts/Dockerfile: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: pulseaudio-13.0/scripts: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied ... tar: pulseaudio-13.0/m4: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied tar: pulseaudio-13.0/m4/lib-ld.m4: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: pulseaudio-13.0/m4: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied tar: pulseaudio-13.0/m4/progtest.m4: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: pulseaudio-13.0/m4: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied tar: pulseaudio-13.0/m4/ltsugar.m4: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: pulseaudio-13.0/m4: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied tar: pulseaudio-13.0/m4/gettext.m4: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: pulseaudio-13.0/m4: Cannot mkdir: Permission denied ... Remaking the puleaudio-13.0.xz file with tar -xJf /usr/portage/distfiles/pulseaudio-13.0.tar.xz tar --owner portage --group portage -cpJf pulseaudio-13.0.tar.xz pulseaudio-13.0 i.e. by trying to set portage.portage as the owner.group of the files and then using this .tar.xz file did NOT work. Obviously, even though I was running the emerge command as root, the ebuild had trouble extracting other directories like 'scripts' or 'm4' (see above). I don't know what has changed in this respect since last time I instelled the package. Workaround ========== A workaround that works is to disable the 'userpriv' feature: FEATURES="${FEATURES} -userpriv" emerge -av ... Either I have overlooked something, or the ebuild may need to set RESTRICT="userpriv" I admit this looks strange, especially since it worked previously, but I wanted to report it nonetheless. It looks very similar to https://bugs.gentoo.org/458148 but I don't use any "aggressive" flags. Some info ========= Portage 2.3.99 (python 3.7.7-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened, gcc-9.3.0, glibc-2.30-r8, 5.4.81-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-5.4.81-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-6700HQ_CPU_@_2.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.6 KiB Mem: XXXXXXXXX total, XXXXXXXXX free KiB Swap: XXXXXX total, XXXXXX free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Mon, 11 May 2020 00:45:01 +0000 sh bash 5.0_p17 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.33.1 p2) 2.33.1 app-shells/bash: 5.0_p17::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r4::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.30.1::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.18::gentoo, 3.6.10-r2::gentoo, 3.7.7-r2::gentoo, 3.8.2-r2::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.16.5::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.6-r1::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.42.1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.13::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6-r3::gentoo, 1.12.6::gentoo, 1.13.4-r2::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15.1-r2::gentoo, 1.16.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.33.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 7.3.0-r3::gentoo, 7.4.0-r2::gentoo, 7.5.0::gentoo, 8.3.0-r1::gentoo, 9.2.0-r2::gentoo, 9.3.0::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.2.1::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r6::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r4::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 5.4-r1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.30-r8::gentoo Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -1av =media-sound/pulseaudio-13.0 2. 3. Actual Results: Failure during unpack. Expected Results: ebuild should not fail to extract the package. Possibly set RESTRICT="userpriv"
Looks to me like you have some garbage in /var/tmp/portage that is causing the extraction to fail.
Not a problem with the package/ebuild itself. Like said in comment #1, check your PORTAGE_TMPDIR. Clean it and ensure that portage can write to it.
