Bug 29675 – emerge fails with base.pm symlink error

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Mark Douglas 2003-09-26 07:52:44 UTC]

I have a problem with several different packages failing to emerge due to a
symlink error. Below is an output of what I see:

>>> emerge (4 of 59) gnome-base/nautilus-2.4.0 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) nautilus-2.4.0.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking nautilus-2.4.0.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/nautilus-2.4.0/work
 * Applying nautilus-2-x-printers.patch...                                     
                                                              [ ok ]
ACCESS DENIED  symlink:   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/base.pm
>>> Source unpacked.
--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-nautilus-2.4.0-26670.log"

symlink:   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/base.pm
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge nautilus

Actual Results:  
Instead of the package being emerged, I end up with the error message listed above.

Expected Results:  
The package should have been emerged.

Portage 2.0.49-r6 (default-sparc64-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.21-sparc-r0)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.21-sparc-r0 sparc64 sun4u
ccache version 2.2 [enabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc ~sparc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=ultrasparc -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://www.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="sparc avi crypt cups encode fbcon foomaticdb gif imlib jpeg libwww mad
mikmod mpeg ncurses nls oss png pdflib spell truetype xv xml2 xmms zlib gdbm
berkdb slang readline arts java sdl tcpd pam ssl perl python esd oggvorbis gtk
motif opengl X gtk2 gnome xml innodb -qt -kde -alsa"

[Comment 1 Jason Wever (RETIRED) 2003-09-26 19:01:32 UTC]

While it's not the same software package, this problem is the same as bug
#28211, so marking as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28211 ***