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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory?
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:51:46
Message-Id: 200912131251.38054.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory? by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Sunday 13 December 2009 12:36:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > >
5 > > it seems, something has screwed up my system.
6 > >
7 > > The symptoms are: Updateing a certain package with emerge (which
8 > > successfully compile and install that package) has no effect.
9 > > Next time exactly the same package is reported again as to be
10 > > updated.
11 > >
12 > > And qsearch reports that my metadatabase has gone with the wind
13 > > and I have to do a 'w -m' as root, which helps for that moment,
14 > > but next it is again not present. I think (read:dont know for sure)
15 > > that the
16 > > eix-sync && emerge -pv --verbose --update --deep world
17 > > has "killed" it.
18 > >
19 > > Unfortunately I am not that deeply involved in the internal
20 > > data handling of the gentoo package manager to have an idea
21 > > what is going wrong here.
22 > >
23 > > What can I do to fix this problem ?
24 > >
25 > > Kind regards and have a nice weekend!
26 > > mcc
27 >
28 > fsck your partition containing /var.
29
30 and also check that you have not run out of disk space.
31 --
32 Regards,
33 Mick

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