I'm not sure how things got this way (something to do with not watching
emerge output closely so not knowing when the problem started
precisely). And I'm somewhat newbie, by which I don't expect any
particular allowances but you may wish to keep in mind in thinking about
what stupid mistakes I may have made. :)
In any event, it seems any emerge is now spitting out errors about chmod
and chown segfaulting. Eg for an initial emerge mysql:
<snip>
>>> Completed installing DBD-mysql-2.9003
into /var/tmp/portage/DBD-mysql-2.9003/image/
/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1882: 16369 Segmentation fault
chown portage:portage "${T}/environment" >&/dev/null
/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1882: 10308 Segmentation fault
chmod g+w "${T}/environment" >&/dev/null
</snip>
I can "chown portage:portage <file>" by hand successfully, so I'm a
little confused why it is segfaulting when called from ebuild.sh.
A random walk through Google hasn't turned up much ... I found one
reference to this problem, about 18 months ago, with no archived
responses to the original report.
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@gentoo.org/msg34617.html
FWIW, this is an x86-ish platform, EPIA mobo, nothing too fancy apart
from selinux 2004.1.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
glen
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