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On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:15:12 -0700 |
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Dan Cowsill <danthehat@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky |
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> <michael@××××××××.com>wrote: |
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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 |
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> > > update (emerge -uDNav, etc) and that will proceed nicely, |
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> > > installing new packages and suchlike. I'll then do a little bit |
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> > > of the old emerge -pcv to check for dangling packages and I will |
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> > > 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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> > > |
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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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> > > |
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> > > So! Googling that little tidbit produced nothing meaningful. |
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> > > What's the story? Gremlins? |
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> > Basically. Do you have a world file (/var/lib/portage/world)? If |
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> > not, why not? Is /var or one of its subdirectories mounted |
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> > separately? Hard 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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> > |
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> > /var/lib/portage/world should be -rw-r--r-- root:portage |
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> File's there, permissions are correctly set, the filesystem isn't |
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> mounted separately and according to smartctl, the hard drive is doing |
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> quite well. I'm at a loss! |
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