#sigrun is a regular user whith sudo right (and wheel group) #i don't think its especially related to the emerge of _portage_ but i show it sigrun@midgard ~ $ sudo emerge -avtu portage [...] * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. * IMPORTANT: 1 config files in /etc need updating. * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. sigrun@midgard ~ $ etc-update *** You are not in the portage group. You may experience cache problems *** due to permissions preventing the creation of the on-disk cache. *** Please add this user to the portage group if you wish to use portage. !!! Directory initialization failed: '/var/lib/portage' !!! "chown('/var/lib/portage', -1, 250)" !!! Directory initialization failed: '/var/lib/portage' !!! "chown('/var/lib/portage', -1, 250)" *** You are not in the portage group. You may experience cache problems *** due to permissions preventing the creation of the on-disk cache. *** Please add this user to the portage group if you wish to use portage. !!! Directory initialization failed: '/var/lib/portage' !!! "chown('/var/lib/portage', -1, 250)" !!! Directory initialization failed: '/var/lib/portage' !!! "chown('/var/lib/portage', -1, 250)" *** You are not in the portage group. You may experience cache problems *** due to permissions preventing the creation of the on-disk cache. *** Please add this user to the portage group if you wish to use portage. !!! Directory initialization failed: '/var/lib/portage' !!! "chown('/var/lib/portage', -1, 250)" !!! Directory initialization failed: '/var/lib/portage' !!! "chown('/var/lib/portage', -1, 250)" Scanning Configuration files... find: /etc/cups/certs: Permission denied Automerging trivial changes in: make.conf.example mv: overwrite `/etc/make.conf.example', overriding mode 0644? n Exiting: Nothing left to do; exiting. :) sigrun@midgard ~ $ sudo etc-update Scanning Configuration files... Automerging trivial changes in: make.conf.example Exiting: Nothing left to do; exiting. :)
Portage version misssing...
sorry , its the 2.1_pre10
Reopen...
yeah, we really shouldn't allow to run it as non-root *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68612 ***
