trying to emerge -U and it gets to perl and it seems to be at the last step installing the new files and i get this... >>> /usr/share/man/man3/B::Lint.3pm.gz >>> /usr/share/man/man3/User::pwent.3pm.gz >>> /usr/share/man/man3/Switch.3pm.gz Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1951, in ? mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1210, in merge retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,edebug) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1765, in doebuild return merge(settings["CATEGORY"],settings["PF"],settings["D"],settings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",my root,myebuild=settings["EBUILD"]) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1874, in merge return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4685, in merge return self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4372, in treewalk if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,"",cfgfiledict,mymtime): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4596, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4596, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4596, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4596, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4512, in mergeme mystat=os.lstat(mysrc) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/tmp/portage/perl-5.8.0-r12/image/usr/share/man/man3/ Hash::Util.tmp' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. tribeca distcc # emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1,2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.0-test1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb" 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 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline tetex bonobo svga java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk motif opengl mozilla gphoto2 cdr X alsa cups -gnome qt mysql -kde pda -arts ipv6 gtk2" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
That's a bug in the kernel, see bug #24991.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24991 ***