At Sun, 17 Jul 2005 03:57:14 +0200 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> William Kenworthy schreef:
>> If files have gone missing first step is fsck the disk just in case.
>> Next emerge sync if it works. (dont use the fancy options until its
>> working again.)
Done. Fsck clean.
Emerge --sync has repopulated /usr/portage ... but it gave an error at
the end. Here is the tail of the output
118600 files...
Number of files: 118670
Number of files transferred: 98725
Total file size: 93601075 bytes
Total transferred file size: 93601075 bytes
Literal data: 93601075 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 2882564
Total bytes written: 1974681
Total bytes read: 50760948
wrote 1974681 bytes read 50760948 bytes 259143.14 bytes/sec
total size is 93601075 speedup is 1.77
>>> Updating Portage cache:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2705, in ?
oldcat = portage.catsplit(cp_list[0])[0]
IndexError: list index out of range
ajglap ~ #
>> Whats "esync" ?? I wouldnt trust it until you know what happened.
>
> Esync is a part of gentoolkit-- it runs emerge sync and outputs or mails
> you the updated package list (new and upgradeable packages). It's really
> not dangerous in and of itself.
It also runs eupdatedb, which indexes the packages so that a subsequent
esearch <package-name>
goes much faster than
emerge --search <package-name>
> Isn't what happened that the sync failed before it was able to import
> the new portage tree, but after it had removed the old one?
That is my theory as well
> Afaics, this is one of those "head wound" kinda problems (bleeds a lot
> and looks very scary, but not as serious as it seems at first glance).
Great description.
Thank you both.
I am guessing that the the "updating portage cache" error is due
to the previous failed emerge --sync.
Hence I ran an
emerge --metadata
This succeeded. I then ran
eupdatedb
which also succeeded.
Running both
esearch portage
and
emerge --ask portage
showed that portage was up to date so I then proceeded to
emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world
which showed firefox, glibc, and a few others.
This is now chugging along successfully.
Thank you again; once once this group has proven to be one of the
great gentoo assets.
Sincerly,
allan
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