A little while back I did an “emerge system” on my VPS and didn’t think much more about it. First time back to the box today to emerge something else, and was greeted with this:
>>> Unpacking source…
>>> Unpacking traceroute-2.0.15.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/traceroute-2.0.15/work
touch: setting times of `/var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/traceroute-2.0.15/.unpacked’: No such file or directory
…and the emerge error output. Took me a little while to get the answer, but it was (of course) caused by a new version of something that came in with the system update. This bug comment had the crude hack I needed to get back working again, but longer-term I obviously need to fix the mismatch between the version of linux-headers and the kernel version my VPS is using (it’s Xen on RHEL5).
Crossed Wires 