On 26/03/2016 17:46, Dan Johansson wrote: > On my Raspberry Pi2 (running Gentoo of cause) I have a problem with > portage, or rather with emerge. When emerging something I get some error > messages about "shell-init:... permission denied" like this: > > ---------------------8<--------------------- >>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-arch/xz-utils-5.2.2::gentoo > shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access > parent directories: Permission denied >>>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/xz-5.2.2.tar.gz' > --2016-03-26 16:31:48-- > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/xz-5.2.2.tar.gz > Length: 1464228 (1.4M) [application/octet-stream] > Saving to: ‘/usr/portage/distfiles/xz-5.2.2.tar.gz’ > > /usr/portage/distfi 100%[=====================>] 1.40M 3.06MB/s in > 0.5s > > 2016-03-26 16:31:48 (3.06 MB/s) - > ‘/usr/portage/distfiles/xz-5.2.2.tar.gz’ saved [1464228/1464228] > > * xz-5.2.2.tar.gz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... > > [ ok ] > shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access > parent directories: Permission denied > shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access > parent directories: Permission denied > job-working-directory: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: > cannot access parent directories: Permission denied > chdir: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent > directories: Permission denied >>>> Unpacking source... >>>> Unpacking xz-5.2.2.tar.gz to > /var/tmp/portage/app-arch/xz-utils-5.2.2/work >>>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/app-arch/xz-utils-5.2.2/work > ---------------------8<--------------------- > > The emerge continues and installs the software OK (as far as I can see). > I tried to debug emerge (using --debug), but surprise surprise, just > before the error messages shows there is a "set +x" in the output, hence > I can not see which command it is that "produces" the error message and > I can also not see the path/file that is the culprit. > > Any suggestions on how to debug this further? > >
What user do you run emerge as? It should be root Also check permissions on directories in /var/tmp/portage and all subdirs -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
