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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory?
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:36:41
Message-Id: 200912131336.35311.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory? by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > it seems, something has screwed up my system.
5 >
6 > The symptoms are: Updateing a certain package with emerge (which
7 > successfully compile and install that package) has no effect.
8 > Next time exactly the same package is reported again as to be
9 > updated.
10 >
11 > And qsearch reports that my metadatabase has gone with the wind
12 > and I have to do a 'w -m' as root, which helps for that moment,
13 > but next it is again not present. I think (read:dont know for sure)
14 > that the
15 > eix-sync && emerge -pv --verbose --update --deep world
16 > has "killed" it.
17 >
18 > Unfortunately I am not that deeply involved in the internal
19 > data handling of the gentoo package manager to have an idea
20 > what is going wrong here.
21 >
22 > What can I do to fix this problem ?
23 >
24 > Kind regards and have a nice weekend!
25 > mcc
26 >
27
28 fsck your partition containing /var.

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory? Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory? meino.cramer@×××.de