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

[Dan Cowsill]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky <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!