Merging kdebase-3.1 fails due to a sandbox violation. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge kdebase-3.1 Actual Results: cause of sandbox violation: mkdir: /root/.kde Portage 2.0.46-r9 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.2.5-r4,2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.19-xfs-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.linux.no/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 apm libg++ xml2 gdbm berkdb svga ggi tcltk java guile sdl tcpd pam libwww perl python esd imlib scanner 3dnow arts avi cdr crypt cups dga encode gif gpm gtk imap jpeg kde mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses oggvorbis opengl oss pda pdflib pic png qt qtmt quicktime readline sasl slang slp spell ssl truetype usb X xface xmms xv zlib -gnome -nls" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
do you use sudo? then it is probably the same as bug #11664. please also look at bug #7853.
Yes, I was using sudo. It would appear that my problem is the same as that of bug #11664.
ok, then i'll mark as duplicate of 11664. if you have any ideaas how to fix kde.eclass to work with sudo, please report there :) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11664 ***