touch: /usr/local/tce.installed/python-e_dbus: Permission denied
python-e_dbus.tcz: OK
This can occur if "python-e_dbus" is not present
I have had this this a lot, until I realized the error is generated simply because the the app is not present. misleading huh?
I don't believe that is the case here - touch will create the file if it does not exist, or update it's last modified time if it does. What jls_legalize's snippet says to me is that loading python.tcz appears to change the permissions on the tce.installed folder.
I fired up a blank tinycore VM, looked at the permissions of /usr/local/tce.installed, install python, and checked again.
Before: drwxrwxr-x. After: drwxr-xr-x
So python, or something to do with installing python, does indeed cause a problem. I can only assume (not having time or inclination to test this any further) that this can and will cause bizarre problems that otherwise wouldn't exist for some people and might not be reproducible by anyone not running python.