Walt Rarus writes: > WALRUS ~ # whoami > root > WALRUS ~ # ls -l /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/ > ls: cannot access /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild: > Permission denied > total 12 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2675 2008-05-09 09:37 ChangeLog > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 771 2008-05-09 09:37 Manifest > ?????????? ? ? ? ? ? icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild > -rw-r--r-- 1 portage portage 224 2003-07-07 09:54 metadata.xml > > The situation with icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild above is disallowing a complete > "emerge --sync". > I don't know how to resolve the problem since even root can't > access/overwrite this (bogus?) file. Any help available?
Looks like a corrupted file system. A fsck might fix this. You can force one by 'shutdown -Fr now'. Sync your portage tree after this to make sure it is in a clean state. Good luck, Wonko