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From: meino.cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory?
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:08:24
Message-Id: 20091213140728.GB19526@solfire
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge is loosing memory? by Mick
1 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> [09-12-13 15:04]:
2 > On Sunday 13 December 2009 12:36:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
4 > > > Hi,
5 > > >
6 > > > it seems, something has screwed up my system.
7 > > >
8 > > > The symptoms are: Updateing a certain package with emerge (which
9 > > > successfully compile and install that package) has no effect.
10 > > > Next time exactly the same package is reported again as to be
11 > > > updated.
12 > > >
13 > > > And qsearch reports that my metadatabase has gone with the wind
14 > > > and I have to do a 'w -m' as root, which helps for that moment,
15 > > > but next it is again not present. I think (read:dont know for sure)
16 > > > that the
17 > > > eix-sync && emerge -pv --verbose --update --deep world
18 > > > has "killed" it.
19 > > >
20 > > > Unfortunately I am not that deeply involved in the internal
21 > > > data handling of the gentoo package manager to have an idea
22 > > > what is going wrong here.
23 > > >
24 > > > What can I do to fix this problem ?
25 > > >
26 > > > Kind regards and have a nice weekend!
27 > > > mcc
28 > >
29 > > fsck your partition containing /var.
30 >
31 > and also check that you have not run out of disk space.
32 > --
33 > Regards,
34 > Mick
35
36 ...was my first idea...no nothing ... plenty of space...
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