Bug 293864 – app-vim/gentoo-syntax failes to emerge, "chmod failed, no such file or directory"

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Daniel Beecham 2009-11-20 15:48:48 UTC]

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220
openpty failed: 'out of pty devices'
 * gentoo-syntax-20090220.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...        [ ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                     [ ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                    [ ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                   [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking gentoo-syntax-20090220.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work
>>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220 ...
>>> Source compiled.
>>> Test phase [not enabled]: app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220

>>> Install gentoo-syntax-20090220 into /var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/image/ category app-vim
 * Fixing file permissions ...
chmod: changing permissions of `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/syntax': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot read directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/syntax': No such file or directory
chmod: changing permissions of `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/plugin': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot read directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/plugin': No such file or directory
chmod: changing permissions of `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/README': No such file or directory
chmod: changing permissions of `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/doc': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot read directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/doc': No such file or directory
chmod: changing permissions of `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/ChangeLog': No such file or directory
chmod: changing permissions of `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/ftdetect': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot read directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/ftdetect': No such file or directory
chmod: changing permissions of `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/ftplugin': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot read directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/ftplugin': No such file or directory
chmod: changing permissions of `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/indent': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot read directory `/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/indent': No such file or directory
 * 
 * ERROR: app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called src_install
 *             environment, line 2352:  Called vim-plugin_src_install
 *             environment, line 2928:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *       chmod -R a+rX "${S}" || die "chmod failed";
 *  The die message:
 *   chmod failed
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/temp/environment'.
 * 

# chmod -R a+rX /var/tmp/portage/app-vim/gentoo-syntax-20090220/work/gentoo-syntax-20090220/plugin/ || echo "failed"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Clean install, first thing I emerged was vim.

[Comment 1 Daniel Beecham 2009-11-20 15:50:13 UTC]

Created attachment 210719 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 Daniel Beecham 2009-11-20 15:52:30 UTC]

Created attachment 210721 [details]
build.log

[Comment 3 Daniel Beecham 2009-11-20 17:29:33 UTC]

Apparently this was because I did not mount /dev properly (from a livecd).
Closing.