This command crashes emerge when issuing it as a normal, non-root user: emerge vmware-workstation --fetchonly Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Fetching (1 of 2) app-emulation/vmware-workstation-8.0.2.591240 from vmware !!! app-emulation/vmware-workstation-8.0.2.591240 has fetch restriction turned on. !!! This probably means that this ebuild's files must be downloaded !!! manually. See the comments in the ebuild for more information. * Fetch failed for 'app-emulation/vmware-workstation-8.0.2.591240' * Please download VMware-Workstation-Full-8.0.2-591240.x86_64.bundle * from http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/ * and place it in /usr/portage/distfiles Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 43, in <module> retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/main.py", line 2030, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/actions.py", line 442, in action_build retval = mergetask.merge() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1002, in merge rval = self._merge() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/Scheduler.py", line 1352, in _merge self._main_loop() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/PollScheduler.py", line 148, in _main_loop self.sched_iface.iteration() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/util/_eventloop/EventLoop.py", line 166, in iteration if not x.callback(f, event, *x.args): File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/SpawnProcess.py", line 239, in _dummy_handler self._unregister_if_appropriate(event) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AbstractPollTask.py", line 129, in _unregister_if_appropriate self.wait() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 53, in wait self._wait_hook() File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/AsynchronousTask.py", line 146, in _wait_hook self._exit_listener_stack.pop()(self) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/_emerge/EbuildBuild.py", line 158, in _fetchonly_exit spawn_nofetch(portdb, self._ebuild_path, settings=self.settings) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/package/ebuild/_spawn_nofetch.py", line 80, in spawn_nofetch elog_process(settings.mycpv, settings) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/elog/__init__.py", line 175, in elog_process m.process(mysettings, str(key), mod_logentries, mod_fulllog) File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/elog/mod_save.py", line 52, in process mode='w', encoding=_encodings['content'], errors='backslashreplace') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/portage/elog/app-emulation:vmware-workstation-8.0.2.591240:20120218-170233.log' Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.10.47 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.6.2, glibc-2.14.1-r2, 3.2.6-gentoo-ck1 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.2.6-gentoo-ck1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2500K_CPU_@_3.30GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.7-r3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r2, 4.6.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.2 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.14.1-r2 Repositories: gentoo nx vmware proaudio interactive-fiction science kde qt Local ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -mtune=native -march=native -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -mtune=native -march=native -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles ftp://distfiles.gentoo.org/pub/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--sort-common" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/nx /var/lib/layman/vmware /var/lib/layman/pro-audio /var/lib/layman/interactive-fiction /var/lib/layman/science 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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 authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" DRACUT_MODULES="plymouth" 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="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="nothing" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" 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: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.47 was built with the following: USE="(consolekit) (ipc) (multilib) (policykit) -build -doc -epydoc (-pypy1_8) -python2 -python3 (-selinux) -xattr" LINGUAS="-pl" emerge -pv portage: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild R ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.47 USE="(ipc) -build -doc -epydoc (-pypy1_8) -python2 -python3 (-selinux) -xattr" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Please post the output of the following command: ls -ld /var/log/portage /var/log/portage/elog
(In reply to comment #1) > Please post the output of the following command: > > ls -ld /var/log/portage /var/log/portage/elog drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 26 2009 /var/log/portage drwxrws--- 2 portage root 106496 Feb 18 20:25 /var/log/portage/elog
Somehow you got the wrong permissions. This will fix it: chown portage:portage /var/log/portage /var/log/portage/elog chmod g+ws /var/log/portage /var/log/portage/elog I don't know how you got the wrong permissions. Portage doesn't change the permissions automatically, in order to respect the permissions that the administrator may have set. As long as the stage3 tarball contains the correct permissions, and portage sets the permissions correctly if it has to create the directory, then we can close this bug as RESOLVED:WORKSFORME.
I installed Gentoo on this machine in 2006. I've never reinstalled again after that. At some point, I stopped being able to use "elogv" as a normal user (the user is in the "portage" group). I do not remember when that happened, but I am absolutely sure that I never changed the permissions of that directory myself. I suppose an ebuild did this (perhaps in an attempt to update the system to new directory permissions or something,) but I guess we'll never know which one. So I'm closing this, since it seems I'm the only one who has this problem. Should I investigate further though? I could post a message on the users mailing list and ask if anyone out there has the same permission problem.
(In reply to comment #4) > Should I investigate further though? No, if it's not reproducible then it's not worth investigating. One possible cause is that you upgraded to portage-2.1.10.11 before I added the permission tweaks to the ebuild for bug 377177.
