(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
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