Hi. I got some strange bug. I try to emerge bootsplash-themes. After unpacking themes and converting in gesplash forman, i got next messages: * Converting libertnl cp: cannot create regular file `/var/tmp/portage/bootsplash-themes-20060913/image//etc/splash/Cybercity/images/verbose-1024x768.jpg': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/var/tmp/portage/bootsplash-themes-20060913/image//etc/splash/OpenSchool/images/verbose-800x600.jpg': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/var/tmp/portage/bootsplash-themes-20060913/image//etc/splash/OpenSchool/images/verbose-1024x768.jpg': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/var/tmp/portage/bootsplash-themes-20060913/image//etc/splash/OpenSchool/images/verbose-1280x1024.jpg': No such file or directory cp: cannot create regular file `/var/tmp/portage/bootsplash-themes-20060913/image//etc/splash/OpenSchool/images/verbose-1600x1200.jpg': No such file or directoryman: >>> Merging media-gfx/bootsplash-themes-20060913 to / --- /etc/ --- /etc/splash/ >>> Safely unmerging already-installed instance... --- cfgpro dir /etc --- !empty dir /etc/splash >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... Nothing copies in /etc/splash. I find in ebuild strings, where copying images from Cybercity and OpenSchool themes and commecnt them. But themes is't install in /etc/splash. I try do emerge --sync, but after sync this bug dosn't disapier. Sorry for my bad English. My emerge --info: solshark solshark # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2_pre1-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 Last Sync: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:30:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.6-r1, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -m3dnow -mtune=athlon64 -march=athlon64" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -mmmx -msse -msse2 -m3dnow -mtune=athlon64 -march=athlon64" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en" LINGUAS="ru en" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/xgl-coffee" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 aac aalib alsa apache2 avi bash-completion berkdb bgg bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cdinstall cdparanoia cdr clamav clearcase cli crypt css cups curl cvs dba dbus directfb dlloader doc dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds effects elibc_glibc emboss encode examples extras fat fbcon fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac font-server foomaticdb fortran ftp gcc64 gd ggi gif gimp glitz glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 iconv icq imagemagick imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jabber java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde kernel_linux libcaca linguas_en linguas_ru lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mailwrapper mbox mime mono mozdevelop mp3 mpeg mpm-prefork mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia oav ogg opengl oss pam pascal pcre pdf pdflib perl php png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs ruby samba scanner script sdl session sharedmem slang soap source spell spl sql ssl subversion svg symlink tagwriting tcl tcltk tcpd threads tidy tiff tk tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU utf8 v4l2 vcd verbose vhosts video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa vim vim-with-x vorbis wmf xcomposite xine xml xmldoclet xmms xorg xpm xsl xv xvid zip zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I just checked, had the same problem on my machine and traced it back to an issue with `find`. Could you please whether trying to run `find -regex foo` results in a segfault on your system as well?
Yes, i confirm. find segfault thn i type command "find -regex some_string"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149309 ***
OK, the problem should be easily solved by emerging a new version of findutils :)