Portage-2.2_rc13 'permission denied' annoyance [SOLVED]

BlackSwan · Last edited by BlackSwan on Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:31 pm; edited 1 time in total

I just upgraded to Portage 2.2 (which is necessary e.g. for Compiz-Fusion 0.7.8 and KDE 4.1). It works great, but there is one tiny annoyance: using 'emerge -p [package_name]' as a regular user produces 8 extra lines of permission complaints. For example:

$ emerge -pv latexsuite

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] app-vim/latexsuite-1.5.20060325 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
* error scanning '/etc': find: `/etc/cron.weekly': Permission denied
find: `/etc/cron.monthly': Permission denied
find: `/etc/skel/.ssh': Permission denied
find: `/etc/fcron': Permission denied
find: `/etc/cron.hourly': Permission denied
find: `/etc/ssl/private': Permission denied
find: `/etc/portage/-': Permission denied
find: `/etc/cron.daily': Permission denied
$

I realize that Portage 2.2 is still considered unstable, and that this is a pretty trivial issue. Still, I use emerge --pretend as a regular user quite frequently, so if there's a simple fix, I'd love to hear about it.

Thanks!

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BlackSwan · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject:

padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

try shutdown -F now
after fsck it may become ok.
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BlackSwan · Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject:

BlackSwan · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject:

If no one has any other ideas, is it appropriate to submit a bug report? Or is this issue too minor?

padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

emerge -pv latexsuite

try emerge with su and passwd.
#emerge -pv latexsuite
if it works we can see about emerging pamagain.
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BlackSwan · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:29 pm Post subject:

BlackSwan · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject:

I just emerged the new release candidate (rc14) for Portage 2.2, which solved the problem. Thanks to the Portage development team for doing such a great job!