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On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> OK, this is too funny. I'm sitting here in the dark browsing around on |
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>> my home machine while I'm doing an eix-sync. I have my legs crossed, |
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>> sitting in my chair that swivels, and guess what...my big toe is at |
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>> __exactly__ the height of the main power button on my APC UPS, and |
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>> darn if I don't hit it and power is gone! |
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>> The machine booted and came back up with no obvious problems but when |
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>> I tried to continue with the eix-sync I get some pretty messed up |
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>> messages, ala: |
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>> Can't read cache file |
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>> /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success |
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>> Reading category 146|154 ( 94%): x11-libs .. |
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>> Can't read cache file |
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>> /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success |
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>> Reading category 146|154 ( 94%): x11-libs .. |
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>> Can't read cache file |
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>> /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success |
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>> Reading category 146|154 ( 94%): x11-libs .. |
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>> Can't read cache file |
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>> /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success |
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>> Reading category 146|154 ( 94%): x11-libs .. |
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>> Can't read cache file |
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>> /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success |
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>> Reading category 154|154 (100%) Finished |
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>> I tried removing the timestamp file to get it to sync again but that |
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>> didn't fix it. |
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>> How does a big-toe guy regenerate the database emerge --sync normally |
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>> keeps for my machine? |
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>> Too funny! (Hey - at least I provided a laugh I hope!) :-))) |
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>> - Mark |
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> |
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> I think this will help: |
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> emerge-webrsync |
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> That should download the complete tree. It will be a pretty good size file |
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> tho just in case you have dial-up or some other slow connection. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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> P. S. Careful with the toe next time. lol |
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Thanks Dale, and to Andrea also. |
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On my machine I'm not finding a man page on emerge-webrsync so I'm a |
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bit hesitant to run it until I find maybe some information on line. |
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Andrea's emerge --metadata command is one thing I thought about last |
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night, along with maybe --regen, but decided it wasn't worth messing |
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things up. I think maybe the removal of eix completely, then removal |
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of the cache database, and then re-emerging eix and starting clean |
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with that program might be the safest first step, assuming that I |
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don't find a problem with emerge itself this evening. |
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Thanks for the ideas. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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