Did you unpack the sources as root and are you building as the lfs user? It seems to me that the build process is having a permissions problem writing to files or possibly reading from files.
I see a few paths in that output. I'd start seeing what the file permissions on them was. Kevin -- Kevin Lyda Galway, Ireland US Citizen overseas? We can vote. Register now: http://www.votefromabroad.org/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page