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I am really sorry, I wasted your time all along. I sudoed to root on the MacBook and looked at the command history. I was root when I changed the profile. I wonder how I can work in that business and be sometimes so confused.

If you read the documentation on profiles, for example here, it doesn't say root privilege is required. I'm only trying to change my own profile, not system wide. I use sudo to emerge. For the rest I set up the two PCs exactly the same way, except for the stage download. Thanks again.

Thanks a lot for your help. Again, they're exactly the same denis@euclide(~)$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers ## sudoers file. ## ## This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. ## Failure to use 'visudo' may result in syntax or file permission errors ## that prevent sudo from running. ## ## See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file. ## ## ## Host alias specification ## ## Groups of machines. These may include host names (optionally with wildcards), ## IP addresses, network numbers or netgroups. # Host_Alias WEBSERVERS = www1, www2, www3 ## ## User alias specification ## ## Groups of users. These may consist of user names, uids, Unix groups, ## or netgroups. # User_Alias ADMINS = millert, dowdy, mikef ## ## Cmnd alias specification ## ## Groups of commands. Often used to group related commands together. # Cmnd_Alias PROCESSES = /usr/bin/nice, /bin/kill, /usr/bin/renice, \ # /usr/bin/pkill, /usr/bin/top # Cmnd_Alias REBOOT = /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/poweroff ## ## Defaults specification ## ## You may wish to keep some of the following environment variables ## when running commands via sudo. ## ## Locale settings # Defaults env_keep += "LANG LANGUAGE LINGUAS LC_* _XKB_CHARSET" ## ## Run X applications through sudo; HOME is used to find the ## .Xauthority file. Note that other programs use HOME to find ## configuration files and this may lead to privilege escalation! # Defaults env_keep += "HOME" ## ## X11 resource path settings # Defaults env_keep += "XAPPLRESDIR XFILESEARCHPATH XUSERFILESEARCHPATH" ## ## Desktop path settings # Defaults env_keep += "QTDIR KDEDIR" ## ## Allow sudo-run commands to inherit the callers' ConsoleKit session # Defaults env_keep += "XDG_SESSION_COOKIE" ## ## Uncomment to enable special input methods. Care should be taken as ## this may allow users to subvert the command being run via sudo. # Defaults env_keep += "XMODIFIERS GTK_IM_MODULE QT_IM_MODULE QT_IM_SWITCHER" ## ## Uncomment to use a hard-coded PATH instead of the user's to find commands # Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" ## ## Uncomment to send mail if the user does not enter the correct password. # Defaults mail_badpass ## ## Uncomment to enable logging of a command's output, except for ## sudoreplay and reboot. Use sudoreplay to play back logged sessions. # Defaults log_output # Defaults!/usr/bin/sudoreplay !log_output # Defaults!/usr/local/bin/sudoreplay !log_output # Defaults!REBOOT !log_output ## ## Runas alias specification ## ## ## User privilege specification ## root ALL=(ALL) ALL ## Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command # %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL ## Same thing without a password %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL ## Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to execute any command # %sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL ## Uncomment to allow any user to run sudo if they know the password ## of the user they are running the command as (root by default). # Defaults targetpw # Ask for the password of the target user # ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL # WARNING: only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw' ## Read drop-in files from /etc/sudoers.d ## (the '#' here does not indicate a comment) #includedir /etc/sudoers.d denis@euclide(~)$ denis@maxwell(~)$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers ## sudoers file. ## ## This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. ## Failure to use 'visudo' may result in syntax or file permission errors ## that prevent sudo from running. ## ## See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file. ## ## ## Host alias specification ## ## Groups of machines. These may include host names (optionally with wildcards), ## IP addresses, network numbers or netgroups. # Host_Alias WEBSERVERS = www1, www2, www3 ## ## User alias specification ## ## Groups of users. These may consist of user names, uids, Unix groups, ## or netgroups. # User_Alias ADMINS = millert, dowdy, mikef ## ## Cmnd alias specification ## ## Groups of commands. Often used to group related commands together. # Cmnd_Alias PROCESSES = /usr/bin/nice, /bin/kill, /usr/bin/renice, \ # /usr/bin/pkill, /usr/bin/top # Cmnd_Alias REBOOT = /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/poweroff ## ## Defaults specification ## ## You may wish to keep some of the following environment variables ## when running commands via sudo. ## ## Locale settings # Defaults env_keep += "LANG LANGUAGE LINGUAS LC_* _XKB_CHARSET" ## ## Run X applications through sudo; HOME is used to find the ## .Xauthority file. Note that other programs use HOME to find ## configuration files and this may lead to privilege escalation! # Defaults env_keep += "HOME" ## ## X11 resource path settings # Defaults env_keep += "XAPPLRESDIR XFILESEARCHPATH XUSERFILESEARCHPATH" ## ## Desktop path settings # Defaults env_keep += "QTDIR KDEDIR" ## ## Allow sudo-run commands to inherit the callers' ConsoleKit session # Defaults env_keep += "XDG_SESSION_COOKIE" ## ## Uncomment to enable special input methods. Care should be taken as ## this may allow users to subvert the command being run via sudo. # Defaults env_keep += "XMODIFIERS GTK_IM_MODULE QT_IM_MODULE QT_IM_SWITCHER" ## ## Uncomment to use a hard-coded PATH instead of the user's to find commands # Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin" ## ## Uncomment to send mail if the user does not enter the correct password. # Defaults mail_badpass ## ## Uncomment to enable logging of a command's output, except for ## sudoreplay and reboot. Use sudoreplay to play back logged sessions. # Defaults log_output # Defaults!/usr/bin/sudoreplay !log_output # Defaults!/usr/local/bin/sudoreplay !log_output # Defaults!REBOOT !log_output ## ## Runas alias specification ## ## ## User privilege specification ## root ALL=(ALL) ALL ## Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command # %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL ## Same thing without a password %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL ## Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to execute any command # %sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL ## Uncomment to allow any user to run sudo if they know the password ## of the user they are running the command as (root by default). # Defaults targetpw # Ask for the password of the target user # ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL # WARNING: only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw' ## Read drop-in files from /etc/sudoers.d ## (the '#' here does not indicate a comment) #includedir /etc/sudoers.d denis@maxwell(~)$

They're exactly the same: denis@euclide(~)$ groups denis wheel audio cdrom video users denis denis@maxwell(~)$ groups denis wheel audio cdrom video users denis

But the permissions on the system where command epro flavor desktop works are exactly the same as the other system where it doesn't work: denis@euclide(opengl)$ ls -l /etc/portage/make.profile/parent -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1411 Nov 4 06:56 /etc/portage/make.profile/parent denis@maxwell(~)$ ls -ld /etc/portage/make.profile/parent -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1365 Nov 4 07:42 /etc/portage/make.profile/parent euclide is the PC where the command works, maxwell the one where it doesn't. Besides, I remember installing Funtoo a year ago or so and epro was also working with my own account. Thanks for the reply.

I don't think I have to be root or use sudo. I didn't have to one my other PC (the MacBook). Thanks anyway for your reply.

I just reinstalled Fundoo on two of my PCs, one being an old MacBook. The MacBook installation worked great, but I hit a problem on the other PC, an AMD 64 based system. I cannot set my profile with epro. Here's what I get: Would someone have a suggestion? Thanks in advance.

Hello everybody, I followed this Funtoo document, http://www.funtoo.org/KDE_Plasma_5, that describes how to install KDE Plasma. I managed to get the login screen, but after logging in the screen stays black. I only see a big arrow cursor for the mouse. I couldn't install kde-apps-meta because there was a slot conflict. I only installed two of the meta packages: kdebase-runtime-meta kdecore-meta Is there other meta packages I should install to get a working desktop? Thanks in advance.

I finally reinstalled from scratch. Hopefully I'll be good for a couple of years without running in the same kind of problems. Thanks again for your help.

I'm sorry I don't really understand your answer. Is there a way to reinitialize Portage to a sane state?

I use KDE but i may have pulled in packages from other desktops inadvertantly. Here's the output of the commands you asked:

Thanks a lot for the help. I use Linux at work and I use Gentoo/Funtoo at home, but unfortunately I don't know the intricacies of Portage well enough. The first emerge command fails with multiple conflicts:

I tried to use the uploader to upload build.log but if fails with the error "You aren't permitted to upload this kind of file". I pasted the content of the file at the end. But first here's the output of emerge --info '=www-client/firefox-47.0.1::gentoo': And here's the content of build.log:

Hi all, I've not been able to build Firefox since version 42; the current version in Portage is 47. It fails with the same error every time: failed to load site script /usr/local/share/config.site. This file exists and is readable. Has anybody encountered this problem? Thanks in advance.