On Friday 30 October 2009 12:23:45 dhk wrote: > Below is the output from the failed emerge of app-text/spellutils-0.7 . > The error is an access violation, but I don't know why. It seems to be > the /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/spellutils.mo file but that file > doesn't exist.
It's failing on the install step, not the merge step. So it doesn't help looking in /usr/share/ because the build is not working there yet. The problem will lie in /var/tmp/portage/$STUFF/usr/share You must look there > `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/spellutils-0.7/work/spellutils-0.7/intl' > Making install in po > make[1]: Entering directory > `/var/tmp/portage/app-text/spellutils-0.7/work/spellutils-0.7/po' > if test -r ".././mkinstalldirs"; then \ > .././mkinstalldirs /usr/share; \ > else \ > /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/share; \ > fi > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/spellutils.mo > /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file > `/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/spellutils.mo': Permission denied > installing da.gmo as /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/spellutils.mo > if test "spellutils" = "gettext"; then \ > if test -r ".././mkinstalldirs"; then \ > .././mkinstalldirs /usr/share/gettext/po; \ > else \ > /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/gettext/po; \ > fi; \ > /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./Makefile.in.in \ > /usr/share/gettext/po/Makefile.in.in; \ > else \ > > : ; \ > > fi You have an permission denied error here at this point. Run the emerge again and when it fails navigate through /var/tmp/portage/ to find the directory or file in question. See what the problem is - I'll bet money that a regular user is trying to write to a directory owned by root with perms 755. When you have all the info, file a bug at b.g.o. because this should not happen (it's a bug in the build scripts) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
