When emerging gnomba, I get this message repeatedly (for about 2 or 3 minutes) cd . \ && CONFIG_FILES=Makefile CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh ./config.status creating Makefile cd . \ && CONFIG_FILES=Makefile CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh ./config.status creating Makefile cd . \ && CONFIG_FILES=Makefile CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh ./config.status creating Makefile cd . \ && CONFIG_FILES=Makefile CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh ./config.status creating Makefile cd . \ && CONFIG_FILES=Makefile CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh ./config.status creating Makefile cd . \ && CONFIG_FILES=Makefile CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh ./config.status creating Makefile cd . \ && CONFIG_FILES=Makefile CONFIG_HEADERS= /bin/sh ./config.status and then the build fails with this message: make: *** creating jobs pipe: Too many open files. Stop. !!! ERROR: net-misc/gnomba-0.6.2 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 24, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. karim root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1100MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] 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="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -msse -mmmx" CHOST="i686-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/sh are/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/tex mf/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="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -msse -mmmx" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs buildpkg ccache distcc sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://mail.sarai.kit/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb cdr crypt cups curl dga dnd d v dvb dvd encode esd faad fam flac flash fltk foomaticdb gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gt khtml i8x0 imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 java javascript jpeg kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww linguas_hi mad ma ildir mbox mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mozinterfaceinfo moznoirc mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mysql ncurs es nls oav oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl sla ng slp speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype unicode usb vim-with-x wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39183 ***
