deleting /var/tmp/portage problems [solv]

[gurke]

im trying to delete my /var/tmp/portage files, because there seems to be a lot of rubbish, but when i do "cd /var/tmp/portage;rm -r *" it just hangs (waited 10 min). it seems there is a file in one of the subdirs, which cant be deleted, but i cant locate it, any clues?

edit: i went through the directories and deleted each file alone, then it worked.