On Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:11:02 +0100 Florian Gamböck <m...@floga.de> wrote:
> Am 05.01.2015 um 11:54 schrieb Gevisz: > > After today's world update, the eix-update command, run under root, > > failed to "open the database file '/var/cache/eix/portage.eix' for writing." > > > > Nevertheless, the same command, run with ordinary user privileges, > > completed without error. > > Obviously, while updating, the priviliges are dropped to another user > (root shouldn't be overused anyway). In this case, they are most likely > dropped to user "portage". Ok, thank you for explanation. > Try changing the owner and group of the cache to "portage". > > $ ls -al /var/cache/eix/portage.eix > -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 12302936 Dec 19 16:45 > /var/cache/eix/portage.eix > > Greetings > --Flo >
