I recently switched the profile as mentioned by portage. I am using gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre8-r1 There is a a deactivasted section in /usr/bin/euse, defining the path to the use.desc When I uncomment that, it does work again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. euse -i 2. 3. Actual Results: EUSE exiting with following errors: requires read permissions for /etc/make.profile/../use.desc. requires read permissions for /etc/make.profile/../use.local.desc. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] 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,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage.local" SYNC="rsync://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo-portage" USE="X adns apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt dvd encode esd f77 fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idea imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg junit ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdk sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46982 ***