something wrong with /tmp (i think)

Mr. Garr

i finally reinstalled gentoo, but there are couple of problems
1. when i try to emerge sth i allways get a message :
>>>emerge (x of x) sth...
!!! File system problem. (Read only? Out of space?)
!!! perhaos rm -Rf /var/tmp/portage
!!! [errno 17] File exists: /var/tmp/portage/(the thing that i wanted to emerge)/temp'

2. when i run xf86config i get:
Cannot create directory /tmp/.xf86config1490

i'm pretty sure that both of the problems are cause by the same reasen, but i don't know what to do
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Overkill · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 62 Location: Belgium

As far as I know, emerge does not use /tmp but /var ...

Correct me if I'm wrong

Try to remount the /tmp and /var drives.
I believe
mount -o rw remount /var, not sure, check the manpages

Mr. Garr · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 4:11 pm Post subject:

oh and one more thing i was installing from knoppix livecd
and while in chroot everything was ok, emerged everything without any problems
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Overkill · n00b Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 62 Location: Belgium

Have you tried the above ?

Mr. Garr · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 4:26 pm Post subject:

a made it with /tmp no effect, hmm i don't know how shuld i remount /var since it's not on a separate partition
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Earthwings · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 5:29 pm Post subject:

you can only remount /var if it has got it's own partition. your problem shouldn't be related with /tmp, too. please post what 'mount' and 'df -h' tells you.

Mr. Garr · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2003 6:36 pm Post subject: