> I ran the installation again and it crashed immediately as follows:
> 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.
* 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
Comments appreciated on this.
Regards
MF
