on two separate machines - one x86, other amd64 I see exact same problem updating ca-certificates. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1a. emerge -uDN world 1b. or otherwise emerge -1 ca-certificates Actual Results: >>> Emerging (12 of 63) app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809 * ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb to /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809/work deb2targz: converting '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809/distdir//ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb' ... deb2targz: skipping section 'debian-binary' deb2targz: skipping section 'control.tar.gz' can't write '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809/distdir//ca-certificates_20080809_all.tar.gz': Permission denied at /usr/bin/deb2targz line 54. * * ERROR: app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_unpack * environment, line 2094: Called unpack 'ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb' * ebuild.sh, line 405: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * deb2targz "${srcdir}/${x}" || die "$myfail" * The die message: * failure unpacking ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/app-misc:ca-certificates-20080809:20090121-230419.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809/temp/environment'. * >>> Failed to emerge app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809, Log file: >>> '/var/log/portage/app-misc:ca-certificates-20080809:20090121-230419.log' Expected Results: successful emerge operation * upgrade is from app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809 to 20080514-r2 * emerge info from one of the machines: $ emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc16 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.22-gentoo-r9-i686-Genuine_Intel-R-_CPU_U1300_@_1.06GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:10:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.6-r4, 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=prescott -msse3 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=prescott -msse3 -pipe -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tera-byte.com/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/ ftp://mirrors.tera-byte.com/pub/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en ru pl" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi acpi4linux aiglx alias alsa aoss artworkextra audiofile authdaemond avantgo ba-completion bcmath berkdb bindist bluetooth bootsplash branding bzip2 cairo caps cdparanoia cdr chroot cli codecs contactnotes cracklib crypt css cups cvs dbus dga dia divx divx4linux djvu dmi dmx dnd doc dri dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss emovix encode esd evo exif fam fame fbcon fbdev ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gamma gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glep glgd glut gnutls gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gvim hal hdri history hvm i8x0 iconv icq idea ieee1394 imagekits imap imlib2 innodb ipv6 irda irmc isdnlog j2ee jabber jpeg jpeg2k kde koffice-plugin lame laptop lcd ldap libgd libnotify live lynxkeymap lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad mdnsresponder-compat midi mikmod mime mimencode ming mjpeg mmx mmx2 mng monkey mozcalendar mozdevelop mozsha1 mozsvg mozxmlterm mp2 mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mplayer msn mudflap musicbrainz ncurses network nls nojython nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openexr opengl openmp opens oscar pam pcmcia pcre pda pdf pdfkit perl png pnp postgresql ppds pppd pygrub python q32 q8 qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline realmedia reflection reiserfs restrict-javascript samba sametime screen sdl serial session slang smartcard smime sms sndfile snmp soap speedo speex spell spl sql sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subtitles subversion svg svgz sysfs tcpd tga theora threads tidy tiff transcode truetype type1 unicode usb v4l2 vcd videos vidix vim vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x visualization vnc vorbis webdav webpresence wifi win32codecs winpopup x264 x86 xanim xcomposite xext xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc xvnc yahoo zeo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ru pl" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 i830 i915 intel vesa vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
subsequent execution of failed commands from command line succeeds BTW: $ sudo deb2targz /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809/distdir//ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb deb2targz: converting '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809/distdir//ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb' ... deb2targz: skipping section 'debian-binary' deb2targz: skipping section 'control.tar.gz' deb2targz: wrote '/var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809/distdir//ca-certificates_20080809_all.tar.gz' $ ls /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809/distdir/ ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb ca-certificates_20080809_all.tar.gz
What are the permissions on /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809/distdir//ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb?
gamer ~ # ls -l /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809/distdir//ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 Jan 23 19:55 /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/ca-certificates-20080809/distdir//ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb -> /usr/portage/distfiles/ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb gamer ~ # ls -l /usr/portage/distfiles/ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 151008 Aug 20 18:21 /usr/portage/distfiles/ca-certificates_20080809_all.deb
See the last comment - you ought to upgrade sys-apps/portage to >=2.2_rc21. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 250469 ***
