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From: Jean-Baptiste Mestelan <mestelan@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:10:02
Message-Id: eaa71e3e0706140659h505e5199tba0869117907d746@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache by Alex Schuster
1 On 6/14/07, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > Can you mv the dep directory to another name, and re-create it with
3 > emerge --metadata?
4
5 Hey, this worked !!!
6 I could not touch the files in /var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-misc/
7 but I could mv at an above level :
8 mv /var/cache/edb/dep /var/cache/edb/dep_hopelessly_broken worked all right.
9 I had not thought of this ; thanks for suggesting :-)
10
11 And emerge --metadata worked now ! very happy !
12 I will try to fsck -f the offending filesys, now.
13
14 Thank you, Alex.
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