Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> [09-12-13 13:40]:
> > On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > it seems, something has screwed up my system.
> > >
> > > The symptoms are: Updateing a certain package with emerge (which
> > > successfully compile and install that package) has no effect.
> > > Next time exactly the same package is reported again as to be
> > > updated.
> > >
> > > And qsearch reports that my metadatabase has gone with the wind
> > > and I have to do a 'w -m' as root, which helps for that moment,
> > > but next it is again not present. I think (read:dont know for sure)
> > > that the
> > >     eix-sync && emerge -pv --verbose --update --deep world
> > > has "killed" it.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I am not that deeply involved in the internal
> > > data handling of the gentoo package manager to have an idea
> > > what is going wrong here.
> > >
> > > What can I do to fix this problem ?
> > >
> > > Kind regards and have a nice weekend!
> > > mcc
> >
> > fsck your partition containing /var.
>
> Hi,
>
> as soon I do the command sequence described above, qsearch fails with
>
>
> opening '/usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x' failed: Permission denied
> search: initialize_flat(): You should run this command as root: q -m
>
> and an
>
>     sudo ls /usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x
>
> fails with
>
>     ls: cannot access /usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x: No such file
>  or directory
>
> There is no symlink to /var and subfolders as far as I can see...
>
> What part/file is on /var/... which gets corrupted in case of an
> filesystem damage ?
>

how long are you using linux?