On 2020-06-12 00:43, Jack wrote:
That was just after letting "eselect news read" run through.That sounds like a permission problem, which may end up having an effect on your other efforts. In my case, it is /usr/portage/metadata/news, and everything there is root:root and the actual news items are all 755. You could also try doing the "eselect news read new" as root.
:-))) who woulda thought ... you need to be root to read the news. Okay, that's surely the problem. :-)
