[SOLVED] emerge: superuser access is required

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swanner · Post by **swanner** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:57 pm

Having followed the instructions "Gentoo Prefixed Portage Bootstrap Process for Mac OS X" on:

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-al ... -macos.xml,

the installation fails where I try to emerge the first package:

powerbook:/gentoo swanner$ emerge --oneshot sed
Password:
emerge: superuser access is required.

powerbook:/gentoo swanner$

I'am using a powerbook G4 with OS X 10.4.10 and gcc 4.0.1

Any idea? Thanks!

mattsteven · Post by **mattsteven** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:05 pm

This may sound obvious, but enter the correct root password?

Or type the su command and then emerge things.

swanner · Post by **swanner** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 7:13 pm

I did enter the correct root password. Typing the wrong password gives an error.

swanner · Post by **swanner** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 8:41 am

I still have this problem.
Does anybody have an idea what to do?

Thank you!

mattsteven · Post by **mattsteven** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:10 pm

I'd try running it as root.

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$ su root
[enter pass]

emerge .....

Graymi · Post by **Graymi** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:12 pm

use the su command first

then run emerge

swanner · Post by **swanner** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:13 pm

Sorry, but using "su" doesn't work:

powerbook:~/src/gentoo swanner$ su
Password:
powerbook:/Users/swanner/src/gentoo root# emerge --oneshot sed
emerge: superuser access is required.

powerbook:/Users/swanner/src/gentoo root#

mattsteven · Post by **mattsteven** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 9:35 pm

I'd take this one to IRC.

You might find someone in #gentoo-osx who knows about gentoo on your system.
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/irc.xml

swanner · Post by **swanner** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:43 pm

Here my emerge --info output:

powerbook:~/src/gentoo swanner$ emerge --info
Portage 2.2.00.7595-prefix (default-prefix/darwin/macos/10.4/ppc, gcc-4.0.1, unavailable, 8.10.0 Power Macintosh)
=================================================================
System uname: 8.10.0 Power Macintosh powerpc
Unknown Host Operating System
Timestamp of tree: Unknown
distcc 2.18.3-Apple.1 powerpc-apple-darwin8.0 (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos ~ppc-macos"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="powerpc-apple-darwin8"
CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin8"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf"
DISTDIR="/gt/usr/portage/distfiles"
EPREFIX="/gt"
FEATURES="collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer nostrip sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ons/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-search_paths_first -L/gt/usr/lib -L/gt/lib"
PKGDIR="/gt/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/gt/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/gt/usr/portage"
SYNC="svn+http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/alt ... ix-overlay"
USE="aqua coreaudio cracklib midi ncurses objc objc++ ppc-macos prefix readline ssl zlib" ELIBC="Darwin" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="Darwin" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU"
Unset: CFLAGS, CTARGET, CXXFLAGS, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

swanner · Post by **swanner** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 3:17 pm

Thanks to grobian we found out that there was an old alias for emerge in /etc/profile that caused the problem:

alias emerge='sudo emerge'