Bug 84036 – Portage 2.0.51.19 fails attempting to update the emerge executable

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Michael Yockey 2005-03-03 20:49:38 UTC]

When updating to Portage 2.0.51.19, Portage attempts to update the /usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge executable. The following error messages occur.

!!! Failed to move /var/tmp/portage-pkg/portage-2.0.51.19/bin/usr/lib/portage/bi
n/emerge to /usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge
!!! [Errno 13] Permission denied

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -u portage
2.Portage attempts to update to version 2.0.51.19
3.failure

Actual Results:  
Portage update fails

Expected Results:  
Upgrade Portage to 2.0.51.19

emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (hardened/x86, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.10-hardened-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-hardened-r1 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 12 2005, 03:52:11)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector-all"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector-all"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache cvs distlocks keeptemp keepwork
noauto noclean notitles sandbox userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage//packages/x86/"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage/"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="cups foomaticdb gd hardened java javascript jikes kerberos mmx mysql
ncurses nptl oav offensive pam perl php pic pie postgres readline samba sse
unicode usb x86"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-03-03 21:24:57 UTC]

if you're getting permission denied either your permissions are screwed up (you have to fix them yourself) or your filesystem needs to be fsck-ed