I was trying to create a chrooted 32-bit environment on my AMD64, and when I emerged -au world, the package util-linux failed to compile, with the message chgrp tty /var/tmp/portage/util-linux-2.12r/image//usr/bin/write chgrp: invalid group name `tty' make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/util-linux-2.12r/work/util-linux-2.12r/misc-utils' make: *** [install] Error 1 !!! ERROR: sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 140, Exitcode 2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=3 2. emerge -au world 3. Actual Results: I added tty as a group in the chrooted environment and continued with the instructions. The installation completed perfectly. Expected Results: Perhaps it should have created the tty group. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups eds emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
tty comes from baselayout
(In reply to comment #0) Well, then the instructions in the documentation should be changed to require emerge baselayout first. Actually the group "root" was missing, too, (for debianutils) and I had to add that.
the docs say download a stage3 32bit tarball every tarball has baselayout which means it has a group file with tty
Well, something is fishy. I downloaded the 32-bit stage3 tarball exactly as described in the docs. Is it possible to check and make sure that the (stage 3, 32-bit athlon-xp 2005.1) tarball contains a version of baselayout that has tty (and root, too)?
the stage tarball mentioned in the docs: http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86/2005.0/stages/athlon-xp/stage3-athlon-xp-2005.0.tar.bz2 contains an /etc/group file with the tty group not sure which stage you grabbed
cimarron / # ls -l stage3-athlon-xp-2005.1.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 90952725 Aug 10 14:09 stage3-athlon-xp-2005.1.tar.bz2
that tarball too has a group file with tty defined in it: $ tar jxOf stage3-athlon-xp-2005.1.tar.bz2 ./etc/group | grep tty tty::5: