I cannot seem to find ANY help on the subject. The forums search is broken on this end, and IRC help is a sad disappointing joke. And what little mail I've sent here has been ignored for some reason.
The problem is this: I cannot emerge sync because certain timestamp file will not allow me to modify them. rename sys-devel/.timestamp.x.LTeQiE -> sys-devel/timestamp.x : Operation not permitted Then it tries several more time to sync to no avail. When it does seem to finish, it tells me there is an update to portage. The IRC channel tried to tell me, that portage will say that EVEN if I have the current ~x86. This has not been my experience. My experience although breif and n00bish has shown me that portage will only inform you of an update if your portage is older than the x86 version. Trying to chmod the files and or the whole /usr/portage results in: rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/dev-java/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/gnome-base/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/gnome-extra/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/kde-base/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/licenses/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/media-plugins/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/net-dialup/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/net-fs/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/sys-devel/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/sys-kernel/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/x11-base/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/x11-libs/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/games-roguelike/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/games-rpg/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/games-strategy/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/games-misc/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/games-simulation/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted rm: cannot remove `/usr/portage/sys-fs/timestamp.x': Operation not permitted Normally at this point I would just reinstall because of the poor help I frequently receive. But I would also like to understand how this happened. I also rm -R /portage by mistake. emerge --version Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.6.0-test5-mm3)
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