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On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: |
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> Hi list, |
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> I've been having a strange issue every so often. I'll do a world update |
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> (emerge -uDNav, etc) and that will proceed nicely, installing new |
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> packages and suchlike. I'll then do a little bit of the old emerge -pcv |
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> to check for dangling packages and I will get the following: |
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> !!! You have no world file. |
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> !!! Proceeding is likely to break your installation. |
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> Portage will then politely inform me that it needs to remove 190 |
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> packages and I thank FSM I added -p. |
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> So! Googling that little tidbit produced nothing meaningful. What's |
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> the story? Gremlins? |
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Basically. Do you have a world file (/var/lib/portage/world)? If not, |
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why not? Is /var or one of its subdirectories mounted separately? Hard |
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drive going bad? Do you see gremlins anywhere? |
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Permissions on /var/lib/portage should be drwxrws--- root:portage |
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/var/lib/portage/world should be -rw-r--r-- root:portage |
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