Hello. After changing make.profile simlink from /usr/portage/profiles/default-x86-2004.2 to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.2 as it was sugested by portage euse utility is completly unworkable. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. euse -i 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. May be this helps. But I think the problem is common for everyone who moved to the new profile: # emerge --info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] 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="-mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/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/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/ http://mirror.gentoo.ru/pub/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.spb.ru/rsync http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa audiofile avi cdparanoia crypt cups directfb dvd encode faad fbcon flac gif gimpprint gnome gnuplot gtk gtk2 imlib java jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms mad mmx mng mozilla mpeg nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib pic png povray python qt quicktime readline samba spell sse sse2 ssl svg tetex theora tiff truetype unicode wmf xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid zlib linguas_ru"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46982 ***
