Bug 76272 – db-4.1.25_p1-r4 emerge fails with userpriv

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Paul Worrall 2004-12-31 17:43:34 UTC]

with FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox", emerge of db-4.1.25_p1-r4 fails

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge db
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
>>> Test phase [not enabled]: sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r4 
touch: cannot touch `.tested': Permission denied 
 
!!! ERROR: sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r4 failed. 
!!! Function dyn_test, Line 940, Exitcode 1 
!!! Failed to 'touch .tested' in /var/tmp/portage/db-4.1.25_p1-r4 

Expected Results:  
emerge proceed to completion  

Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, 
glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r12-prw-r6 i686) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r12-prw-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2700+ 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 
ccache version 2.3 [enabled] 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 
Headers:  
sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1,sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -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/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms userpriv 
usersandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://mirror.uni-c.dk/gentoo/ 
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 X acl alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia crypt cscope 
cups encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk 
gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde ldap libwww mad mikmod motif 
mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png 
python qt quicktime readline samba sasl sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd 
tiff truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_radeon linguas_en_GB"

[Comment 1 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2005-01-03 01:59:11 UTC]

It seems there is a permission problem with your building directory. userpriv+usersandbox is not the cause as I allways use it too. Did you run filesystem operations on your /var/tmp directory paralel to merging db? Do you use acl's on the /var/tmp/portage dir? Could you past the output of:
"ls -la /var/tmp/portage/db-4.1.25_p1-r4"?

[Comment 2 Paul Worrall 2005-01-03 12:30:11 UTC]

I do not recall running any filesystem operations on /var/tmp and I don't know what acls are. 

paul@wyvern paul $ ls -la /var/tmp/portage/db-4.1.25_p1-r4
total 41
drwxr-xr-x     5 portage portage   184 Jan  3 20:04 .
drwxrwxr-x  1195 portage portage 41552 Jan  3 20:04 ..
-rw-r--r--     1 root    root        0 Dec 31 18:44 .tested
-rw-r--r--     1 portage portage     0 Jan  3 20:04 .unpacked
drwxr-xr-x     2 portage portage    88 Jan  3 20:04 build-info
drwxrws---     2 portage portage   112 Jan  3 20:05 temp
drwx------     3 portage portage    80 Jan  3 20:04 work

I deleted .tested and the emerge runs OK now. I have no idea how I ended up with a .tested with that ownership.  Thanks for your help.