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I got hit by the same never ending loop of "COUNTER file is missing" on |
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one of my Gentoo boxes and ran |
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/usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.py |
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instead of the .pl version as suggested by the error message. |
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Problem is gone. |
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Hth. |
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On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 01:45, Steven Elling wrote: |
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> On Monday 13 October 2003 17:51, Thomas Schweikle wrote: |
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> > >>> Install tcp-wrappers-7.6-r6 into |
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> > |
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> > /var/tmp/portage/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r6/image/ category sys-apps |
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> > [...] |
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> > |
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> > >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... |
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> > |
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> > * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ] |
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> > |
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> > >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... |
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> > |
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> > * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ] |
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> > |
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> > >>> Auto-cleaning packages ... |
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> > |
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> > ['gnome-base/libbonobo', '2.2.2', 'r0'] ['gnome-base/libbonobo-2.4.0', |
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> > 'gnome-base/libbonobo-2.2.2'] |
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> > !!! COUNTER file is missing for gnome-base/libbonobo-2.2.2 in /var/db. |
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> > !!! Please run /usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.pl or remerge the package. |
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> > yew root # |
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> > |
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> > running /usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.pl doesn't fix anything. After the |
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> > next emerge the error will be there again. Thus the error is definitely |
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> > build into portage. |
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_-_snip_-_ |
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