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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Deluge of emerge failures (ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd)
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:14:35
Message-Id: 1194642533.21299.71.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Deluge of emerge failures (ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd) by felix@crowfix.com
1 On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 12:55 -0800, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > An esync and emerge resulted in 62 out of 113 packages failing emerge
3 > with errors about no write access to /etc/passwd and /etc/group. This
4 > is a dual opteron system, ~amd64, with both kernels 2.6.22-gentoo-r8
5 > and 2.6.23-gentoo-r1. This particular esync began fine, 113 packages
6 > to build. The last package to build before the first failure was
7 > glib-2.7. The system seems to be running fine; I have rebooted,
8 > logged in, etc. Is this some glib 2.7 feature? Should I just keep
9 > running and wait for glib-2.7-r1?
10 >
11 >
12 >
13 > ================ example emerge log
14 > >>> Emerging (1 of 62) dev-libs/glib-2.14.3 to /
15 > * glib-2.14.3.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ]
16 > * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ]
17 > * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ]
18 > * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ]
19 > * checking glib-2.14.3.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ]
20 > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
21 > ...
22 > ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /etc/passwd
23 > --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
24 > LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-dev-libs_-_glib-2.14.3-11618.log"
25 >
26 > open_wr: /etc/passwd
27 > ...
28 > open_wr: /etc/passwd
29 >
30
31 Wow, I don't understand how running checksums on the distfile would
32 attempt to open /etc/passwd :| What version of portage are you running?
33
34 Nevertheless, I was able to able to emerge dev-libs/glib-2.14.3 just
35 fine, and I'm running glibc 2.7.
36
37 -a
38
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