Errors compiling xfree-4.2.1-r2

[pr0vidence]

Hello All

I did a search for this and got a few hits, but none applied to my specific problem, although a couple were similar. The solutions I saw did not work.

I am trying to update Gentoo on my laptop (Compaq Presario 1800T P3-650 320 mb RAM, 40gig)

When I do a "emerge -u portage" it wants to compile xfree 4.2.1-r2, have no idea why, but it's fine with me, if there's a newer version, I would probably compile it on there anyway.

Well here is what I get when It finishes downloading and starts the compile.

ACCESS DENIED chown: /var/cache/edb
ACCESS DENIED chown: /var/cache/edb/dep
ACCESS DENIED open_wr: /var/cache/edb/mtimedb

over and over and over, just never stops.

when I CTRL-C it I get:

Error in sys.exitfunc:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/atexit.py", line 20, in _run_exitfuncs
apply(func, targs, kargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 4236, in store
cPickle.dump(mtimeb,open(mymfn,"w"))
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/ebd/mtimedb'
Killed
#


Anyone have any clue? I did a searge in bugs.gentoo.org too and got little of any use to me. But I have been shown before what I could not find on my own.

I appreciate any help.

[Yeric]

Hmmm looks like a permissions issue to me

either log in as root from console su -

or as root change permissions for users to change these files


on reflection just do this from root

anything like this should be a root thing anyway, you do not want any user updating and trashing your lovely gentoo system willey nilly

try the emerge -u portage as root user logged into either a gui consol or from or terminal

[pr0vidence]

Thanks for replying.

Perhaps I should have specified, but that was done as root. I usually do all my updating as root so as to avoid these kinds of problems...

[bfelger]

I had the same problem.

Your install is old/b0rked.

Do an emerge -u portage and see if that fixes it. It did for me.

[Yeric]

better still
do an emerge sync
do an emerge -up world, and see what it will upgrade?

if portage is not listed then do emerge -up --deep world

thsi will not install it will just show what will be merged

[pr0vidence]

Thanks for helping everyone...

No such luck though.