[root@Farnsworth ppallen]# conary emerge nvidia-kernel[nvidia-kernel.smp]
+ Building nvidia-kernel=drivers.rpath.org@fl:desktop[]
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/conary/lib/util.py", line 155, in excepthook
    log.syslog.traceback(lines)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages//conary/lib/log.py", line 63, in traceback
    self.open()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages//conary/lib/log.py", line 84, in open
    raise IOError, 'could not open any of: ' + ', '.join(logList)
IOError: could not open any of: /var/log/conary, /var/conary/emerge/.conary/log

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/conary", line 1068, in ?
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/bin/conary", line 1046, in main
    debugAll=debugAll, cfg=ccfg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages//conary/lib/options.py", line 512, in main
    self.runCommand(thisCommand, cfg, argSet, otherArgs, **kw)
  File "/usr/bin/conary", line 1015, in runCommand
    argSet, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages//conary/lib/options.py", line 515, in runCommand
    thisCommand.runCommand(*args, **kw)
  File "/usr/bin/conary", line 317, in runCommand
    ignoreDeps=ignoreDeps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages//conary/build/cook.py", line 1374, in cookCommand
    callback = CookCallback())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages//conary/build/cook.py", line 1299, in cookItem
    requireCleanSources=requireCleanSources)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages//conary/build/cook.py", line 323, in cookObject
    requireCleanSources = requireCleanSources)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages//conary/build/cook.py", line 695, in cookPackageObject
    requireCleanSources = requireCleanSources)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages//conary/build/cook.py", line 788, in _cookPackageObject
    util.mkdirChain(builddir + '/' + recipeObj.mainDir())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/conary/lib/util.py", line 69, in mkdirChain
    os.mkdir(p)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/conary/emerge'