[gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems

[gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems

[Wes Gray]

Started getting this problem when I try to emerge sync:

>receiving file list ...
>129008 files to consider
>metadata/
>recv_generator: mkdir "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/files" failed: Permissio
>n denied
>stat "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/files" failed: Permission denied
>metadata/timestamp.chk
>          32 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00
>mkstemp "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/.xdriinfo-0.99.1.ebuild.PTUe9h" failed
>: Input/output error
>         431 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00
>readlink "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/Manifest" failed: Permission denied
>readlink "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/files" failed: Permission denied
>readlink "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/xdriinfo-0.99.0_pre20050908.ebuild" f
>ailed: Permission denied
>readlink "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/ChangeLog" failed: Permission denied
>readlink "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/metadata.xml" failed: Permission deni
>ed
>readlink "/usr/portage/x11-misc/driconf/files/digest-driconf-0.2.7" failed: Pe
>rmission denied
>readlink "/usr/portage/sys-boot/sgibootcd/files/digest-sgibootcd-0.12" failed:
> Permission denied
>readlink "/usr/portage/sys-boot/sgibootcd/sgibootcd-0.12.ebuild" failed: Permi
>ssion denied
>recv_generator: mkdir "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/files" failed: Permissio
>n denied
>stat "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/files" failed: Permission denied
...

Emerge sync ends up failing.  It's weird, like my directory permissions are
broken:

># cd /usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/
># ls
>ChangeLog  Manifest  files  metadata.xml  xdriinfo-0.99.0_pre20050908.ebuild
># ls -la
>ls: Manifest: Permission denied
>ls: files: Permission denied
>ls: xdriinfo-0.99.0_pre20050908.ebuild: Permission denied
>ls: ChangeLog: Permission denied
>ls: metadata.xml: Permission denied
>total 2
>drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  216 Oct 19 18:36 .
>drwxr-xr-x  95 root root 2448 Oct 23 08:06 ..
># ls files
>ls: files: Permission denied
># chmod 777 files
>chmod: cannot access `files': Permission denied
>#

What do you make of this?  Do I need to run fsck?

-Wes
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Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems

[Christoph Gysin]

Wes Gray wrote:
> What do you make of this?  Do I need to run fsck?

This would be the first thing I would try. Also check dmesg.

Christoph
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Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems

[Sascha Lucas]

Hi Wes

> What do you make of this?  Do I need to run fsck?

I don't know whats wrong with your portage-tree, but you can try to get a 
new one. Just move the olde tree away and sync:

# mv /usr/portage /usr/portage.old
# mkdir /usr/portage
# emerge sync


Sascha.

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