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From: Xavier Neys <neysx@g.o>
To: Steven Elling <ellings@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Errors over errors with portage
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 00:02:42
Message-Id: 1066089760.21144.3.camel@basil
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Errors over errors with portage by Steven Elling
1 I got hit by the same never ending loop of "COUNTER file is missing" on
2 one of my Gentoo boxes and ran
3 /usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.py
4 instead of the .pl version as suggested by the error message.
5
6 Problem is gone.
7
8 Hth.
9
10 On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 01:45, Steven Elling wrote:
11 > On Monday 13 October 2003 17:51, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
12 > > >>> Install tcp-wrappers-7.6-r6 into
13 > >
14 > > /var/tmp/portage/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r6/image/ category sys-apps
15 > > [...]
16 > >
17 > > >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
18 > >
19 > > * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ]
20 > >
21 > > >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
22 > >
23 > > * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ]
24 > >
25 > > >>> Auto-cleaning packages ...
26 > >
27 > > ['gnome-base/libbonobo', '2.2.2', 'r0'] ['gnome-base/libbonobo-2.4.0',
28 > > 'gnome-base/libbonobo-2.2.2']
29 > > !!! COUNTER file is missing for gnome-base/libbonobo-2.2.2 in /var/db.
30 > > !!! Please run /usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.pl or remerge the package.
31 > > yew root #
32 > >
33 > > running /usr/lib/portage/bin/fix-db.pl doesn't fix anything. After the
34 > > next emerge the error will be there again. Thus the error is definitely
35 > > build into portage.
36
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