Your partition is probably being used for other things than portage, wade in there and clean out ;)

Alex

John Dangler wrote:
Alex~
Thanks for the reply...

df /var/tmp
Filesystem      1K-blocks       Used            Available       Use%
Mounted on
/dev/hda5       7004068 6986356 17712           100%    /

John

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John Dangler wrote:

I've tried emerging openoffice twice and both times I am getting the same
message:

WARNING! Project(s):
gtk

not found and couldn't be built. Correct build.lsts.


Test phase [not enabled]: app-office/openoffice-1.1.4


Install openoffice-1.1.4 into /var/tmp/portage/openoffice-1.1.4/image/

category app-office *Installing OpenOffice.org into build root. glibc version: 2.3.4 ./setup: The temporary directory is full. (/var/tmp/portage/openoffice-1.1.4/temp/sv001.tmp)

!!! ERROR: app-office/openoffice-1.1.4 failed.
!!! function src_install, Line 431, Exitcode 255
!!! Setup failed

After the first failure, I cleaned out /var/tmp/portage completely




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What output do you get from 'df'? It might be that portage isn't using all the disk space in /tmp but something else which stores data on the partition is hogging...



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