Bug 72107 – something is broken: even portage-2.0.51-r3 fails to re-emerge itself

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Ville Oikarinen 2004-11-22 10:56:00 UTC]

# time emerge portage
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.51-r3 to /
>>> Downloading http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/distfiles/portage-2.0.51-r3.tar.bz2
--20:44:39--  http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/distfiles/portage-2.0.51-r3.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/portage-2.0.51-r3.tar.bz2'
Resolving trumpetti.atm.tut.fi... 130.230.54.100
Connecting to trumpetti.atm.tut.fi[130.230.54.100]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 280,663 [application/x-tar]
100%[====================================>] 280,663      586.33K/s             

20:44:40 (584.21 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/portage-2.0.51-r3.tar.bz2' saved [280663/280663]

>>> md5 src_uri ;-) portage-2.0.51-r3.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking portage-2.0.51-r3.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51-r3/work
 * Applying gcc-2.95-libsandbox.patch ...                                 [ ok ]
>>> Source unpacked.
./create-localdecls
Checking truncate argument type... off_t
Checking libc version... libc.so.6
Checking glibc subversion... 2.3
gcc -march=i386 -O1 -pipe  -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPIC -fPIC -D_REENTRANT -Wall -c libsandbox.c
gcc -march=i386 -O1 -pipe  -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPIC -fPIC -D_REENTRANT -Wall -c sandbox_futils.c -o sandbox_futils.o
gcc libsandbox.o sandbox_futils.o -shared  -fPIC -ldl -lc -nostdlib -lgcc -o libsandbox.so
gcc -march=i386 -O1 -pipe  -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPIC -fPIC -D_REENTRANT -Wall -c sandbox.c -o sandbox.o
gcc -march=i386 -O1 -pipe  -D_GNU_SOURCE -DPIC -fPIC -D_REENTRANT -Wall sandbox.o sandbox_futils.o getcwd.c -ldl -lc -o sandbox
>>> Test phase [not enabled]: sys-apps/portage-2.0.51-r3
touch: cannot touch `.tested': Permission denied

!!! ERROR: sys-apps/portage-2.0.51-r3 failed.
!!! Function dyn_test, Line 940, Exitcode 1
!!! Failed to 'touch .tested' in /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51-r3
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.




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




Something is terribly broken in my system. I re-emerged baselayout and then
tried to re-emerge portage to try to get past bug #71160. And now portage cannot
even emerge itself!

I have 2 other gentoo systems and they work just fine. The errors seem to be
related to file access rights and/or sandbox.

I suspect there is some really old setting or package that causes this, and
current ebuilds just don't take into consideration that somebody has still got
it. Or they assume the user has managed to read all the ewarns that tell him to
do something manually...

Please help me!

# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r1,
2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
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-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms userpriv
usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/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="3dnow 3dnowex X adns alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr
crypt cups dga directfb divx4linux dnd dvd dvdread encode f77 fam flac
foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jce
joystick jpeg junit justify kde libg++ libwww lua mad matroska mikmod mmx mng
motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic
png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svg svga
tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype videos wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"

[Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2004-12-01 15:18:18 UTC]

Turning off userpriv and usersandbox will should allow you to work around the problem.

[Comment 2 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2005-01-10 19:23:52 UTC]

Check your FS.

[Comment 3 Ville Oikarinen 2005-02-17 13:45:36 UTC]

Like bug #71160: I got past the problem by using FEATURES="-sandbox"