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

[Pandu Poluan]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:19, 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.
>

ROFL

Rgds,
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