When trying to emerge mgetty (1.1.30) the Installation fails as it tries to chown fax some files and Directories. To fix I created the fax user manually and the emerge completed successfully. The Easy fix is to 'useradd -s /bin/false fax' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. if you do have a user called fax remove it userdel fax 2. emerge mgetty 3. ERROR Actual Results: cd /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/bin ; \ test -x g3topbm || ln -s g32pbm g3topbm make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/work/mgetty-1.1.30/g3' cd fax ; make install INSTALL="install -c -o bin -g bin" \ FAX_OUT_USER=fax \ BINDIR=/var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/bin SBINDIR=/var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/sbin \ LIBDIR=/var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/lib/mgetty+sendfax CONFDIR=/var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//etc/mgetty+sendfax make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/work/mgetty-1.1.30/fax' for i in faxspool faxrunq faxq faxrm ; do \ mv -f /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/bin/$i /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/bin/$i.old 2>/dev/null ; \ install -c -o bin -g bin -m 755 $i /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/bin ; \ done install -c -o bin -g bin -m 755 faxrunqd /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/sbin install -c -o bin -g bin faxq-helper /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/lib/mgetty+sendfax chown fax /var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/image//usr/lib/mgetty+sendfax/faxq-helper chown: `fax': invalid user make[1]: *** [install] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mgetty-1.1.30/work/mgetty-1.1.30/fax' make: *** [install.bin] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-dialup/mgetty-1.1.30 failed. !!! Function src_install, Line 81, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Expected Results: installed Package Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1266MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/sh are/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/lib/jboss /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo http://www.zentek-international.com/mirrors/ge ntoo/ http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp http://gentoo.gg3.net/ ftp://gg3.net/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENTOO http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/ ftp://gentoo.csi e.mcu.edu.tw/gentoo/ ftp://linux.ntcu.net/dists/gentoo/ ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub1/Gentoo/ http://gentoo.scphost.com http://ftp.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Gentoo ftp://ft p.isu.edu.tw/pub/Linux/Gentoo http://mymirror.asiaosc.org/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo http://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.asia.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups dba doc encode f77 foomaticdb gd gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 hardened hardenedphp imap imlib java javacomm javadoc javamail jikes jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pdflib perl php png postgres python qt quickt ime readline samba sasl sdl slang snmp spell ssl ssli svga tcpd tetex truetype usb vhost x86 xerves xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xprint xv zlib"
see bug #59461 fixed in 1.1.30-r2
marked 1.1.30-r2 x86 stable. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59461 ***
