(Stupid question): but have you done this as root? could it be that you need to have the portage gropu on you system?
I really don't know, so these are just guesses. On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:04:41 +0000 Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon 26 January 2004 00:18, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: > > You can try this: > > snip> > > just unpack the stage 3 tarball somewhere, or if you use the midnight > > commander, then just enter it, and copy the missing files from it into > > their respective directories. And if you're not sure which files they are, > > then just copy everything... > >snip> > > On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 18:59:36 +0000 > > > > Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun 25 January 2004 16:01, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > > > Paul Stear wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > Well I've done it now!!! I was cleaning up my system and have > > > > > removed python by mistake. Now emerge will not work. > > An update. > I unpacked a stage 3 tar and copied python and portage into my system. I was > able to do a sync but when I do a emerge -u world I get the following error. > > bash-2.05b# emerge -uv python > Calculating dependencies ...done! > >>> emerge (1 of 3) dev-python/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1 to / > >>> md5 src_uri ;-) python-fchksum-1.6.1.tar.gz > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd > >>> Unpacking source... > >>> Unpacking python-fchksum-1.6.1.tar.gz > to /var/tmp/portage/python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1/work > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/group > >>> Source unpacked. > --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY > --------------------------- > LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-python-fchksum-1.6.1-r1-2412.log" > > open_wr: /etc/passwd > open_wr: /etc/passwd > open_wr: /etc/group > open_wr: /etc/passwd > open_wr: /etc/passwd > open_wr: /etc/passwd > open_wr: /etc/group > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The permissions on the passwd and group files seem to be the same as before I > damaged my system. > > Has anybody any ideas how to solve this??? > > thanks Paul > -- > PLEASE NOTE, > Only text messages will be downloaded, others will be deleted at the server. > This message was sent using gentoo linux and kmail. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- GPG public keys available at cozeee.host.sk
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