Many thanks for the advice and help again.
The installation crashed again due to a file ownership issue.
I will start it again and see if this cures the problem.
The relevant output is here:
* Detected file collision(s):
*
* /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example
* /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/share/portage/config/make.globals
* /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/share/portage/config/repos.conf
* /home/mikef/gentoo/usr/share/portage/config/sets/portage.conf
*
* Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
*
* Press Ctrl-C to Stop
*
* None of the installed packages claim the file(s).
*
* Package 'sys-apps/portage-2.3.68' merged despite file collisions. If
* necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the
* above message.
* chown failure ignored with unprivileged user:
* chown portage:portage ${D}${EPREFIX}/var/log/portage
${D}${EPREFIX}/var/log/portage/elog
* ${EPREFIX}/bin/chown: invalid user: 'portage:portage'
>>> Auto-cleaning packages...
>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
* IMPORTANT: config file '/home/mikef/gentoo/etc/hosts' needs updating.
* See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
* sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.
setlocale: unsupported locale setting
portage: 'portage' user or group missing.
For the defaults, line 1 goes into passwd, and 2 into group.
portage:x:250:250:portage:/var/tmp/portage:/bin/false
portage::250:portage
*** WARNING *** For security reasons, only system administrators should be
*** WARNING *** allowed in the portage group. Untrusted users or processes
*** WARNING *** can potentially exploit the portage group for attacks such
as
*** WARNING *** local privilege escalation.
!!! Directory initialization failed: '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/lib/portage'
!!! chown('/home/mikef/gentoo/var/lib/portage', -1, 0)
!!! Directory initialization failed: '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/cache/edb'
!!! chown('/home/mikef/gentoo/var/cache/edb', -1, 0)
setlocale: unsupported locale setting
*** WARNING *** For security reasons, only system administrators should be
*** WARNING *** allowed in the portage group. Untrusted users or processes
*** WARNING *** can potentially exploit the portage group for attacks such
as
*** WARNING *** local privilege escalation.
emerge: portage group access is required
portage: 'portage' user or group missing.
For the defaults, line 1 goes into passwd, and 2 into group.
portage:x:250:250:portage:/var/tmp/portage:/bin/false
portage::250:portage
*** WARNING *** For security reasons, only system administrators should be
*** WARNING *** allowed in the portage group. Untrusted users or processes
*** WARNING *** can potentially exploit the portage group for attacks such
as
*** WARNING *** local privilege escalation.
Fetching most recent snapshot ...
Trying to retrieve 20190703 snapshot from http://distfiles.gentoo.org ...
Fetching file portage-20190703.tar.xz.md5sum ...
Fetching file portage-20190703.tar.xz.gpgsig ...
Fetching file portage-20190703.tar.xz ...
Checking digest ...
Getting snapshot timestamp ...
Syncing local tree ...
Number of files: 162,469 (reg: 135,282, dir: 27,187)
Number of created files: 395 (reg: 376, dir: 19)
Number of deleted files: 269 (reg: 260, dir: 9)
Number of regular files transferred: 1,375
Total file size: 221.16M bytes
Total transferred file size: 9.46M bytes
Literal data: 9.46M bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 327.68K
File list generation time: 0.015 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 10.98M
Total bytes received: 68.55K
sent 10.98M bytes received 68.55K bytes 16.78K bytes/sec
total size is 221.16M speedup is 20.02
Cleaning up ...
setlocale: unsupported locale setting
portage: 'portage' user or group missing.
For the defaults, line 1 goes into passwd, and 2 into group.
portage:x:250:250:portage:/var/tmp/portage:/bin/false
portage::250:portage
*** WARNING *** For security reasons, only system administrators should be
*** WARNING *** allowed in the portage group. Untrusted users or processes
*** WARNING *** can potentially exploit the portage group for attacks such
as
*** WARNING *** local privilege escalation.
!!! Directory initialization failed: '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/lib/portage'
!!! chown('/home/mikef/gentoo/var/lib/portage', -1, 0)
!!! Directory initialization failed: '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/cache/edb'
!!! chown('/home/mikef/gentoo/var/cache/edb', -1, 0)
setlocale: unsupported locale setting
* running emerge -u system
setlocale: unsupported locale setting
portage: 'portage' user or group missing.
For the defaults, line 1 goes into passwd, and 2 into group.
portage:x:250:250:portage:/var/tmp/portage:/bin/false
portage::250:portage
*** WARNING *** For security reasons, only system administrators should be
*** WARNING *** allowed in the portage group. Untrusted users or processes
*** WARNING *** can potentially exploit the portage group for attacks such
as
*** WARNING *** local privilege escalation.
!!! Directory initialization failed: '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/lib/portage'
!!! chown('/home/mikef/gentoo/var/lib/portage', -1, 0)
!!! Directory initialization failed: '/home/mikef/gentoo/var/cache/edb'
!!! chown('/home/mikef/gentoo/var/cache/edb', -1, 0)
setlocale: unsupported locale setting
emerge: superuser access is required
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Regards
MF
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