I started to install Gentoo step-by-step by the Web instructions on my Pentium 3 machine. Everything was fine until step 17 (emerging kernel). The command emerge sys-kernel/gentoo-sources started first by emerging Tcl/Tk and after that gave the following error message: ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY chown: /var/cache/edb chown: /var/cache/edb/dep open_wr: /var/cache/edb/mtimedb I obtained no kernel sources and was unable to proceed. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.Do as the Gentoo x86 installation web tutorial tells to until step 17. Choose the installation path through Stage 3. The only thing I changed was /etc/make.conf, where I chose USE="apm avi cups dvd flash java mozilla mpeg spell tcltk tetex truetype usb wmf xmms" Actual Results: I obtained the abovedescribed message, no kernel source appeared and no symlinks were created to /usr/src/linux. Expected Results: I would expect the kernel source to appear. I saw some similar warnings about access during previous emerges as well, but they did not seem to do any harm so I ignored them. I did plain install without any other OS running at the same time from 1.4rc2 CD.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13013 ***
