Once in a while I get issues intalling glibs. This is the message:
>>> Emerging (1 of 3) sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r1::pointlessone
* Fetching files in the background.
* To view fetch progress, run in another terminal:
* tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log
* glibc-2.32.tar.xz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ... [ ok ]
* glibc-2.32-patches-1.tar.xz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ... [ ok ]
* locale-gen-2.10.tar.gz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ... [ ok ]
* gcc-multilib-bootstrap-20180511.tar.xz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ... [ ok ]
* Using python3.7 to build
>>> Unpacking source...
make -j3 glibc-test CC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed glibc-test.c -o glibc-test
* Your /etc/nsswitch.conf is out of date.
* Please make sure you have 'files' entries for
* 'passwd:', 'group:' and 'shadow:' databases.
* For more details see:
* https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/nsswitch.conf_in_glibc-2.26
* ERROR: sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r1::pointlessone failed (unpack phase):
* nsswitch.conf has no 'files' provider in 'passwd'.
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 125: Called src_unpack
* environment, line 3490: Called sanity_prechecks
* environment, line 3254: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* die "nsswitch.conf has no 'files' provider in '${entry}'.";
*
* If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r1::pointlessone'`,
* the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r1::pointlessone'`.
* The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r1/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r1/temp/environment'.
* Working directory: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r1/work'
* S: '/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r1/work/glibc-2.32'
The isssue is not that the nsswitch.conf is incorrect. The issue is that it's not world readable. Make sure emerge can actually read the file.