Dear All, The installation crashed in stage 3.
It seems to be a file permission problem. The stage3 log file is too large for pastebinit. I have posted the last 200 odd lines here: https://paste.debian.net/1090102/ This looks to be the problem: >>> /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/lib64/binutils/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.32/libbfd.so -> libbfd-2.32.0.gentoo-sys-devel-binutils-st.so >>> /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/lib64/binutils/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.32/libopcodes.so -> libopcodes-2.32.0.gentoo-sys-devel-binutils-st.so !!! Failed to move /home/mikef/gentoo/var/db/pkg/sys-devel/-MERGING-binutils-2.32-r1 to /home/mikef/gentoo/var/db/pkg/sys-devel/binutils-2.32-r1 !!! [Errno 13] Permission denied: b'/home/mikef/gentoo/var/db/pkg/sys-devel/-MERGING-binutils-2.32-r1' -> b'/home/mikef/gentoo/var/db/pkg/sys-devel/binutils-2.32-r1' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/mikef/gentoo/tmp/usr/lib/python3.6/portage/dbapi/_MergeProcess.py", line 234, in _spawn prev_mtimes=self.prev_mtimes, counter=counter) File "/home/mikef/gentoo/tmp/usr/lib/python3.6/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 1691, in wrapper return f(self, *args, **kwargs) File "/home/mikef/gentoo/tmp/usr/lib/python3.6/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 5194, in merge counter=counter) File "/home/mikef/gentoo/tmp/usr/lib/python3.6/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4465, in treewalk _movefile(self.dbtmpdir, self.dbpkgdir, mysettings=self.settings) File "/home/mikef/gentoo/tmp/usr/lib/python3.6/portage/__init__.py", line 515, in _movefile "mv '%s' '%s'" % (src, dest)) portage.exception.PortageException: mv '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/db/pkg/sys-devel/-MERGING-binutils-2.32-r1' '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/db/pkg/sys-devel/binutils-2.32-r1' >>> Failed to install sys-devel/binutils-2.32-r1, Log file: Suggestions on what might be the problem here are most welcome. Regards MF >>
