| Summary: | baselayout-1.8.6.12-r2 assumes there is a /home dir, trashes the dependency tree | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | wal mart <walmart> |
| Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) <azarah> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | critical | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
!!! copy /var/tmp/portage/baselayout-1.8.6.12-r2/image/home/.keep -> /home/.keep failed. !!! [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/.keep#new' carnivore root # emerge -upD world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2200, in ? mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1105, in display elif (not "--emptytree" in myopts) and portage.db[x[1]]["vartree"].exists_specific_cat(x[2]): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3480, in exists_specific_cat self.invalidentry(self.root+"var/db/pkg/"+a[0]+"/"+x) AttributeError: vartree instance has no attribute 'invalidentry' carnivore root # Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. make /home unwriteable (mine is an NFS mount) 2. emerge baselayout-1.8.6.12-r2 3. repeat until bored Actual Results: emerge -p no longer works Expected Results: installed correctly