Trying: emerge media-video/camstream Got the following ... make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/camstream-0.26.2/work/camstream-0.26.2/camstream/gui' /usr/qt/3/bin/uic -o ChannelSelector.h ChannelSelector.ui ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qtrc.lock /usr/qt/3/bin/uic -o ChannelSelector.cc -i ChannelSelector.h ChannelSelector.ui ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/.qtrc.lock .... ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/qt_plugins_3.3rc.tmp QSettings::sync: failed to open '/usr/qt/3/etc/settings/qt_plugins_3.3rc.tmp' for writing .... All troubles are in /usr/qt/3/etc/settings But emerge has been launched under root and: mikemach root # ls -ld /usr/qt/3/etc/settings drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 200 Jul 13 23:17 /usr/qt/3/etc/settings Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. mikemach root # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25-gentoo) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp" 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 /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-xp" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww linguas_he linguas_ru mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
*** Bug 56949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The camstream version you are talking about is out of portage since three months. Please emerge sync and try again with current 0.26.3.