while trying to emerge cdemu-0.6_beta (as root), I get this error: root@yok3124 hkroger # emerge cdemu Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-cdr/cdemu-0.6_beta to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) cdemu-0.6_beta.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking cdemu-0.6_beta.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/cdemu-0.6_beta/work >>> Source unpacked. gcc -O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DKBUILD_MODNAME=cdemu -c cdemu.c -o cdemu.o /usr/src/linux/scripts/modpost /usr/src/linux/vmlinux cdemu.o gcc -O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DKBUILD_MODNAME=cdemu -c cdemu.mod.c -o cdemu.mod.o ld -r -o cdemu.ko cdemu.o cdemu.mod.o >>> Install cdemu-0.6_beta into /var/tmp/portage/cdemu-0.6_beta/image/ category app-cdr You must be root to make install! make: *** [install] Error 1 !!! ERROR: app-cdr/cdemu-0.6_beta failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 27, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. become root 2. emerge cdemu 3. Actual Results: Emerge failed (you must be root make install). Expected Results: well, it should have installed cdemu without errors. emerge info: Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/Gentoo rsync://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow S3TC X aac aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa apm arts audiofile avi bluetooth bonobo caps cddb cdr chroot cscope cups directfb dnd dnsdb dv dvb dvd encode escreen esd faad fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb freetype fs gb gd gdbm gif gimpprint glut gnome gnomedb gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml icq ieee1394 imap imlib imlib2 irmc jabber java jpeg kde libgda libwww lids lufsusermount mad mbox mikmod mmap mmx mng monkey mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mpeg mpeg4 msn nas nvidia nviz offensive oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pdflib physfs png ppds qt quicktime readline samba sasl sdl skey sox speedo speex spell sse ssl stroke svg theora tiff transcode truetype type1 usb vim-with-x wmf wolk-supermount x86 xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid yahoo zlib"
use `su -` not `su` *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 45948 ***