Re: [gentoo-user] You have no world file

[Dan Cowsill]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>wrote:

> On 04/20/2011 12:15 PM, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com
> > <mailto:michael@××××××××.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> >     > Hi list,
> >     >
> >     > I've been having a strange issue every so often.  I'll do a world
> >     update
> >     > (emerge -uDNav, etc) and that will proceed nicely, installing new
> >     > packages and suchlike.  I'll then do a little bit of the old
> >     emerge -pcv
> >     > to check for dangling packages and I will get the following:
> >     >
> >     > !!! You have no world file.
> >     > !!! Proceeding is likely to break your installation.
> >     >
> >     > Portage will then politely inform me that it needs to remove 190
> >     > packages and I thank FSM I added -p.
> >     >
> >     > So!  Googling that little tidbit produced nothing meaningful.
>  What's
> >     > the story?  Gremlins?
> >     >
> >
> >     Basically. Do you have a world file (/var/lib/portage/world)? If not,
> >     why not? Is /var or one of its subdirectories mounted separately?
> Hard
> >     drive going bad? Do you see gremlins anywhere?
> >
> >     Permissions on /var/lib/portage should be drwxrws--- root:portage
> >
> >     /var/lib/portage/world should be -rw-r--r-- root:portage
> >
> >
> > File's there, permissions are correctly set, the filesystem isn't
> > mounted separately and according to smartctl, the hard drive is doing
> > quite well.  I'm at a loss!
>
> You can try introducing trolls to fight the gremlins. If the smell gets
> too strong, orcs will keep the trolls in check. Gold starts
> disappearing? Dragons should do the trick. When you run out of
> princesses... try memtest.
>
>
Why I love this list in one thread.

Anyway, just an update on the situation.  As far as I can tell, this 'you
have no world file' error only shows up when i'm doing a --depclean.  Also,
it is intermittent.  Right now, -pcv works just fine and reports the correct
number of packages to be removed (zero).  I'm not sure what breaks this, or
if it will be broken in the future.

At this point, I'm not terribly worried about the whole thing, but I am
rather curious.

Thanks guys,
D