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On 04/20/2011 12:15 PM, Dan Cowsill wrote: |
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> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com |
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> <mailto:michael@××××××××.com>> wrote: |
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> On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: |
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> > Hi list, |
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> > |
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> > I've been having a strange issue every so often. I'll do a world |
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> update |
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> > (emerge -uDNav, etc) and that will proceed nicely, installing new |
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> > packages and suchlike. I'll then do a little bit of the old |
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> emerge -pcv |
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> > to check for dangling packages and I will get the following: |
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> > |
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> > !!! You have no world file. |
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> > !!! Proceeding is likely to break your installation. |
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> > |
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> > Portage will then politely inform me that it needs to remove 190 |
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> > packages and I thank FSM I added -p. |
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> > |
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> > So! Googling that little tidbit produced nothing meaningful. What's |
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> > the story? Gremlins? |
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> > |
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> Basically. Do you have a world file (/var/lib/portage/world)? If not, |
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> why not? Is /var or one of its subdirectories mounted separately? Hard |
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> drive going bad? Do you see gremlins anywhere? |
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> Permissions on /var/lib/portage should be drwxrws--- root:portage |
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> |
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> /var/lib/portage/world should be -rw-r--r-- root:portage |
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> File's there, permissions are correctly set, the filesystem isn't |
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> mounted separately and according to smartctl, the hard drive is doing |
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> quite well. I'm at a loss! |
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You can try introducing trolls to fight the gremlins. If the smell gets |
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too strong, orcs will keep the trolls in check. Gold starts |
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disappearing? Dragons should do the trick. When you run out of |
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princesses... try memtest. |
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