----- Original Message ---- > From: Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Sun, January 30, 2011 7:03:27 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Problems... > > On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:12:26 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: > > > Well, I fixed there server - initially by just grabbing a new copy of > > portage like a new install since it was just completely hosed, and the > > server is back up and working. However, now my desktop and laptop are > > both having problems. They sync just fine against the server, but I get > > a series of errors about not having various ebuilds in the manifest > > files - so many that I can't emerge anything (even portage). > > Completely remove the portage tree, fsck the filesystem and then resync.
Well, I certainly have to try that out. > Of course, you can get your other systems working by commenting out any > SYNC entries in make.conf and letting them sync directly with the Gentoo > servers. Can't edit the files on the laptop, possible on the desktop though. > From: Francesco Talamona <francesco.talam...@know.eu> > It seems your three systems share a broken portage tree, try with the > latest portage snapshot, for example from > http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/ > > You can also skip the sync and put it directly on the clients to see if > the rsync service on server is broken... > > Once you stabilize the root cause, it's time to focus on the other > issues (for example run a non-X runlevel on the laptop to fix the login > issue, use nano until vim is ok, and so on). I'm not a fan of nano, so I uninstalled it a long time ago. I usually use vim; not sure why vim is referencing perl libraries, but oh well. And yes - fixing the portage issue is the first step. After that everything else will just fall out - since I can just run the various emerges and perl-cleaner. Ben
