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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VPS has issues emerging everything
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:22:50
Message-Id: AANLkTinCy5r-oSZd-yx+ZkRjAb=sbQQS_TD9tx=Wtfso@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VPS has issues emerging everything by Simon
1 On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Simon <turner25@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > This issue happend after a 'emerge -uDN world' after I had not done
3 > any updates for a bit over 60 days.  (I was just too busy)
4 >
5 > I already have:
6 >  sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.25
7 >
8 > and I don't have smartctl, what pkg is it in?  I'm not sure it will
9 > give valid info though as this is a VPS and everything is XENified.
10 > My root device is /dev/xvda to give you an idea...
11 >
12 > But I did run an fsck, a pretty thorough one like fsck.ext3 -c -c -f
13 > or something like that... I also added another option that made it
14 > super verbose, so I don't know if anything was found, just that
15 > *filesystem was modified* by it...
16 >
17 > I just did the following emerge, these packages had not been
18 > recompiled by the emerge -e system that crashed.  They all compiled
19 > top shape, but the problem doesn't happen on every package, so it's
20 > hard to tell...
21 >
22 > emerge app-shells/bash sys-apps/util-linux sys-fs/e2fsprogs
23 > dev-lang/python sys-apps/portage sys-apps/baselayout sys-fs/udev
24 > sys-apps/busybox
25 >
26 > I will redo a simple fsck.ext3 -c -c -f /dev/xvda and see what it says
27 > exactly (if it says anything).  And then i will --sync and -e @system
28 > again...  I'll reply to the list with my results...
29 >
30 > Thanks,
31 >  Simon
32 >
33
34 smartctl is in smartmontools.
35
36 Possibly consider the ~ version of portage. I'm currently at
37 2.2.0_alpha13. It works well for me.
38
39 __Definitely__ check out Dale's suggestion that possibly python-3 got selected.
40
41 Good luck,
42 Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VPS has issues emerging everything Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>