I get errors when I try to emerge kdenetwork as ROOT, with userpriv and usersandbox in make.conf. Dependency app-crypt/qca-tls-1.0 is causing the problem: ++ -c -pipe -Wall -W -O2 -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -DQCA_PLUGIN -DOSSL_097 -DQT_NO_DEBUG -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT -DQT_PLUGIN -mcpu=i586 -march=i586 -mmmx -m3dnow -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/qt/3/mkspecs/linux-g++ -I/var/tmp/portage/qca-tls-1.0/work/qca-tls-1.0 -I/usr/qt/3/include -o qca-tls.o qca-tls.cpp rm -f libqca-tls.so g++ -Wl,-rpath,/usr/qt/3/lib -shared -o libqca-tls.so qca-tls.o -L/usr/qt/3/lib -lssl -lcrypto -lqt-mt -lpthread >>> Test phase [not enabled]: app-crypt/qca-tls-1.0 touch: cannot touch `.tested': Permission denied When userpriv and usersandbox are removed from make.conf the problem is solved. You can find the details in the following forum post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=276708&highlight= Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Put userpriv and usersandbox in make.conf 2. Emerge kdenetwork as root Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 i686 VIA Samuel 2 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/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mcpu=i586 -march=i586 -mmmx -m3dnow -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=i586 -march=i586 -mmmx -m3dnow -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" 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="x86 3dnow X acl apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libwww mmx motif mozilla ncurses pam pdflib perl png python qt readline samba sdl slang ssl svga tcpd truetype xml2 zlib"
I cannot duplicate this. Please do emerge sync and try again because i updated the stable version on x86.
To recreate the situation I have put back userpriv and usersandbox in make.conf. Then I did a emerge --oneshot app-crypt/qca-tls, which succesfully completed. So, the problem is gone indeed.