Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged file in portage cache

[Alex Schuster]

Jean-Baptiste Mestelan writes:

> I have manually deleted a lot of files from  /var/cache/edb/dep, but
> the offending ones can  neither be removed nor renamed. (Was I all
> right, in manually butchering /var/cache/edb/dep ?) The fact that the
> remaining files contain strange characters is puzzling, indeed.

How did you try to remove them? You might need to use the inode mumber to 
remove them, althouh I think a rm -r should work, too. See 
<http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/delete-remove-files-with-inode-number.html>.

Did you force the fsck with -f?

Can you mv the dep directory to another name, and re-create it with 
emerge --metadata?

	Alex

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