If autofs is on and using the /mnt directory, baselayout crashes when emerging (it cannot change permissions or something like that in the directory). Sollution is as simple as turning off autofs before emerging baselayout, but IMO it should be done by the emerge process OR baselayout should not write there if autofs was on. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-wolk4.10s) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-wolk4.10s i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1200MHz distcc 2.9 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.2 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -pipe " CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -Os -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -pipe " DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox ccache distcc" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ mad mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex aalib nas bonobo svga ggi tcltk guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl ldap cdr breakme artswrappersuid dga dvd evo fbcon gps gtk2 icc leim moznoirc moznomail mule nptl pcmcia pic plotutils pnp prebuilt sse tiff type1 usb wmf Xaw3d -3dnow -java -mikmod -esd -gnome -mozilla"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9849 ***