From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FQZmJ-00026K-0p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:52:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k340oQ4s030632; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 00:50:26 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.234]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k340chv5025313 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 00:38:44 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i22so1389650wra for ; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:38:43 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ioT9sFzcZ4qjK2LvPRAZApqPSZtDI8ihaN9B5aPI7l72S8t7fsMaw/FmO2cTYP4Esh0aOLScroHQCEA9ILpQcfvX2lk7oDRdFL4Hu90+LVp0SDQfYuvIbc8gmW3LSpAGI+IC7xmGiYdyLXIKhg7n8ZrQ4gJ1IEbParb3jGpgEJI= Received: by 10.54.99.5 with SMTP id w5mr1932294wrb; Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:38:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.69.9 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:38:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7573e9640604031738l4898fe64j281a699566d001b8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:38:43 -0700 From: "Richard Fish" Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weird error emerging seahorse In-Reply-To: <20060403205530.M42046@herkild.dk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <443038DE.4060101@herkild.dk> <1144055768.20321.69.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <44311E4C.4030704@herkild.dk> <8f7a9d580604031107v4dc9797jec3670744544c968@mail.gmail.com> <20060403205530.M42046@herkild.dk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k340chv5025313 X-Archives-Salt: cdf81b54-0663-4e13-a6ea-0c773c2f3e36 X-Archives-Hash: fc8a8c759bc1ef89a38022deadad6218 On 4/3/06, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:07:33 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote > > Are you running this as root? > > Yes. I always emerge as root, since my ordinary user isn't in the emerge-group. > > So basically this: > 1) su - root > 1.1) writing password and pressing enter > 2) emerge seahorse > 2.1) failure because it is not running as root. I think the normal portage configuration contains userpriv, which causes portage to drop root privledges and run as portage:portage. Try: 2) FEATURES=-userpriv emerge seahorse Although it is a badly behaved ebuild that wants to modify actual system files just to build...you might also have to disable sandboxing. See 'man make.conf'. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list