I suggest if emerge fails with error to check if the disk (/) is full. If yes then print this message: "Your disk is full. Maybe that's the reason why emerge failed. Unix programs generally behave nonsensically when the disk is full, and don't say this in error. You can usually gain a lot of space by deleting crap from portage cache. To do this, stop all applications that have anything to do with portage and run rm -rf /var/cache/edb/*"
Also "rm -rf /usr/portage/distfiles/*"
(In reply to comment #0) > rm -rf /var/cache/edb/*" Eh?!?!?!
yeah, sorry, but that's stupid advice what you mean to say is you can delete /var/cache/edb/dep however, we're never going to suggest that anywhere *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 23851 ***