On Jul 9, 2012 1:39 AM, "Mark Knecht" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello! > > I noticed some strange messages in my ~/.xsession-errors log-file > > today. They look like this: > > > > profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base:Cannot create directory > > profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.6.1-r1/work/xfce4-session-4.6.1/xfce4-session/xfce4_session-ice-layer.gcda:Skip > > profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base:Cannot create directory > > profiling:/var/tmp/portage/xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.6.1-r1/work/xfce4-session-4.6.1/xfce4-session/xfce4_session-main.gcda:Skip > > . . . > > and so on. > > > > I haven't seen such messages before, that is why decided to ask here > > about what they mean. It is also strange that they mention the > > '/var/tmp/portage/' directory. Maybe something is wrong with > > installation system? > > > > Thanks. > > Vladimir > > > > > > ----- > > <[email protected]> > > > > Out of space? > > eclean-dist -pd possibly? >
Or out of inodes. I've painstakingly learnt to host the portage build directory on reiserfs instead of ext3/4. Rgds,
