Emerge failure. I think this is a new package to my system, pulled in by a cascade effect of new use flags forced on me by the latest apache. It pulled in over 40 new packages and I think this was one. Reproducible: Always treat kevin # emerge -pqv =dev-tex/mh-20080903 [ebuild N ] dev-tex/mh-20080903 USE="-doc" treat kevin # emerge --info =dev-tex/mh-20080903 Portage 2.1.9.24 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1-kosmanor i686) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1-kosmanor-i686-Intel-R-_XEON-TM-_CPU_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.6, 2.5.4-r4, 2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 3.4.6-r2, 4.1.2, 4.3.4, 4.4.4-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA @EULA @BINARY-REDISTRIBUTABLE" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Wall -g -m32 -ansi -O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mmmx" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CPPFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -mmmx" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -mmmx" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://www.cyberuse.com/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.llarian.net/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-m32" LINGUAS="en en_US fr de es pl" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND="/bin/bzip2" PORTAGE_COMPRESS="/bin/bzip2" PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS="-9" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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/local/portage/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi aim alsa apache2 apm bash-completion bcmath berkdb branding bzip2 cairo calendar caps cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cscope ctype cups cxx dbm dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam fastcgi flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif git gphoto2 gpm gtk guile hal iconv icq imap imlib ipv6 java jbig joystick jpeg kde lcms ldap libnotify libwww mad mailwrapper mbox mcal mikmod mime mmap mmx mng modules motif mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nis nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc offensive ogg openal opengl openmp oscar pam pango pcre pdf perl pic plotutils png posix postgres ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline ruby samba sdl session snmp sockets spell sse ssl startup-notification subversion svg svga symlink sysfs sysvipc tcpd tetex tiff tk truetype unicode usb vorbis x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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 auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 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 dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US fr de es pl" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mach64 vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 257458 [details] build log for mh
Created attachment 257459 [details] environment
Looks like a problem with texlive update. I thing there's an upgrade guide.
I had that one too. Remove /var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt (and anything else that is not owned by a package and has possibly been lingering in that directory for years) and you should be OK. Still assigning because it's biting more than one user now.
(In reply to comment #4) > I had that one too. > > Remove /var/lib/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt (and anything else that is not owned by a > package and has possibly been lingering in that directory for years) and you > should be OK. Still assigning because it's biting more than one user now. > Checking all the plain files in that directory with bash: for i in *; do if [ -f $i ]; then f=$(realpath ./$i); ls -lad $f; equery belongs $f; read $x; fi; done They all appear to have identical timestamps, including the logs and the three with unique names. In my case, Aug 26 2008. None of them belong to any package. On Aug 26, 2008, my "emerge ... world" gave me 4 packages: dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.32 dev-scheme/drscheme-4.1 dev-lang/swig-1.3.36 media-gfx/graphviz-2.20.2 So it looks like libxml2 is the most likely culprit, but it has long since been updated to -2.7.7 without disturbing the offending files. Deleting all of the web2c/* plain files leaves (in my case) 9 directories, and equery belongs $PWD/* reveals that they all belong to one of the 7 owners of the web2c directory. I did a new "emerge ... world" and mh got installed just fine. I guess that cleans it up. There should be no plain files in web2c, just owned subdirectories. Thanks.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 237683 ***
