then emerging openssl-0.9.7d-r2 I have got error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2991, in ? mydepgraph.merge(mydepgraph.altlist()) File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1839, in merge retval=portage.doebuild(y,"merge",myroot,self.pkgsettings,edebug) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2562, in doebuild return merge(mysettings["CATEGORY"],mysettings["PF"],mysettings["D"],mysettings["BUILDDIR"]+"/build-info",myroot,mysettings,myebuild=mysettings["EBUILD"]) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 2695, in merge return mylink.merge(pkgloc,infloc,myroot,myebuild) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6670, in merge return self.treewalk(mergeroot,myroot,inforoot,myebuild,cleanup=cleanup) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6297, in treewalk if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,"",cfgfiledict,mymtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6536, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6536, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6536, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6536, in mergeme if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,offset+x+"/",cfgfiledict,thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 6551, in mergeme elif stat.S_ISREG(mydmode) or (stat.S_ISLNK(mydmode) and stat.S_ISREG(os.stat(mydest)[stat.ST_MODE])): OSError: [Errno 40] Too many levels of symbolic links: '/usr/share/man/man3/EVP_BytesToKey.3.gz Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.enetered emerge -uD system 2.when emerging openssl you get error 3. Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.6. 8-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [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/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" 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/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp:// trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://gentoo.org.ua/gentoo-portage" USE="X apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups encode esd f77 foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd threads truetype unicode x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
This looks to be a symlink that points to itself. What does the following give you? ls -l /usr/share/man/man3/EVP_BytesToKey.3.gz
ls -l /usr/share/man/man3/EVP_BytesToKey.3.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Oct 29 00:43 /usr/share/man/man3/EVP_BytesToKey.3.gz -> EVP_BytesToKey.3.gz
Marking this as a duplicate as the other one has a better "summary", and the patch there fixes this too. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70989 ***
