Re: [gentoo-user] portage failed to upgrade

[Space Cake <spacecakex@gmail.com>]

On 2011. aug. 31., szerda, 18.37.11 CEST, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> (Sorry for top-posting; Gmail java mobile client sucks)
> 
> gid 0 should be the 'root' gid. Try 'grep -E "root|wheel" /etc/groups'
> and see if there is/are groups called 'root' or 'wheel' with gid==0
> 
> Also a question: Are you using sudo?
> 
> Rgds,
> 
> 
> On 2011-08-31, Space Cake <spacecakex@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> For a few days my routine upgrades failing at portage with the following
>> message. Do you have any idea what does it means?
>>
>> File
>> "/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.11/image/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/tests/runTests",
>> line 21, in <module>
>>     os.environ["PORTAGE_GRPNAME"] = grp.getgrgid(os.getgid()).gr_name
>> KeyError: 'getgrgid(): gid not found: 0'
>>
>> I've tried to google this, but nothing has found
>>
>> Thank you
>> Laszlo
>>
>>
>>

Seems my gid is not 0 either for root or wheel... I don't know why, I
don't remember if I changed it :)

So, I've changed the gid and also the group for the files assigned to
the grp 1033, so hopefully portage can upgrade this way :)

Thanks for the help
Laszlo