Hi !

Please post the log file showed by the last line (LOG FILE =) after retrying 
to install it to see if the install process make the same error, because it 
seems it leaves the portage "chroot"...

Regards.

Friday 23 March 2007 19:38:17 Steve [Gentoo], you wrote :
> #emerge clamassassin
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
>  >>> Emerging (1 of 1) mail-filter/clamassassin-1.2.3 to /
>
>  * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz RMD160 ;-)
> ...                               [ ok ]
>  * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz SHA1 ;-)
> ...                                 [ ok ]
>  * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz SHA256 ;-)
> ...                               [ ok ]
>  * clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz size ;-)
> ...                                 [ ok ]
>  * checking ebuild checksums ;-)
> ...                                      [ ok ]
>  * checking auxfile checksums ;-)
> ...                                     [ ok ]
>  * checking miscfile checksums ;-)
> ...                                    [ ok ]
>  * checking clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz ;-)
> ...                             [ ok ]
>
>  >>> Unpacking source...
>  >>> Unpacking clamassassin-1.2.3.tar.gz to
>
> /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/clamassassin-1.2.3/work
>
>  >>> Source unpacked.
>  >>> Compiling source in
>
> /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/clamassassin-1.2.3/work/clamassassin-1.2.3 ...
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu
> --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share
> --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --disable-subject-rewrite
> --disable-clamdscan --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
> checking for rm... /bin/rm
> checking for cat... /bin/cat
> checking for sed... /bin/sed
> checking for echo... /bin/echo
> checking for formail... /usr/bin/formail
> checking for mktemp... /bin/mktemp
> checking for sigtool... /usr/bin/sigtool
> checking for clamscan... /usr/bin/clamscan
> checking for clamdscan... /usr/bin/clamdscan
> checking for /tmp/clamd... no
> configure: ClamAV version 0.90 detected.
> configure: Using scanner /usr/bin/clamscan
> configure: Using scanner options --no-summary --stdout --mbox
> configure: Using virus signature file dir /var/lib/clamav
> configure: Signature version reporting is off.
> configure: Scanner name adding is on.
> configure: Using temporary directory
> /var/tmp/portage/mail-filter/clamassassin-1.2.3/temp
> configure: Subject header rewriting is off.
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating clamassassin
> config.status: creating Makefile
>
>  >>> Source compiled.
>
> --------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
> ---------------------------
> LOG FILE =
> "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-mail-filter_-_clamassassin-1.2.3-11762.log"
>
> open_wr:   /var/lib/clamav/.dbLock
> open_wr:   /var/lib/clamav/.dbLock
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-----


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