I got the same thing this morning. I'm not sure what went wrong, but portage was gone from /etc/passwd (but was still in /etc/group). I manually added line 1 like the directions said and everything seems ok since then.
Not sure what the deal is and I'm surprised more people haven't complained, so I don't know if this is for particular configurations or if everyone is hesitant to upgrade portage after the mess a couple of weeks back... Anyway, just fix /etc/passwd manually, that should fix it... Lloyd On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:27:10 -0500 "Bobby R. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got this interesting message after emerging the new portage. > > portage: 'portage' user or group missing. Please update baselayout > and merge portage user(250) and group(250) into your passwd > and group files. Non-root compilation is disabled until then. > For the defaults, line 1 goes into passwd, and 2 into group. > portage:x:250:250:portage:/var/tmp/portage:/bin/false > portage::250:portage > > Why would this feature be added? Did I do something wrong? > > -- > Bobby R. Cox > ----------------- > Wednesday Feb 19 2003 12:05:01 PST > ----------------- > 12:05:01 up 2 days, 17:25, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 > ----------------- > Administration: An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to > receive > the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. > -- Ambrose Bierce > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
