luis jure schrieb am 11.10.2008 14:37: >> Can you emerge attr, then run lsattr on the files that cannot be >> unlinked? I suspect that they might have extended attributes >> preventing those file from being deleted. > > thanks for your answer, that doesn't seem to be the problem, though. > i can install everything using install.py directly (not emerging with > portage). also, using FEATURES="-sandbox" i can emerge without > problems. so this problem seems to be related to the "sandbox", > something i never got to understand completely... >
Have you updated python recently and did not run python-updater? You can also try to re-emerge scons. Sandbox errors are mostly caused when the ebuild tries to access the filesystem directly instead of using $WORKDIR. Maybe some parts of install.py do not honor --instdir="${D}". Some links: http://bugday.gentoo.org/sandbox.html http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/sandbox/index.html Regards, Daniel