On dim. 23 févr. 11:11:31 2020, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > emerge-webrsync has just eaten my /usr/portage :-( ;-( > > I let it run unattended. When I came back I saw first some complaints > from rsync about "vanished" files ... something like > > /usr/portage/_build has vanished before it could be transferred > > and under that portage breaking all over because things in /usr/portage > were missing. And indeed when I look now, almost everything is gone - > all subdirectories including profiles/ and eclass/ are empty (not > distfiles/ but that is not surprising). > > Not a hardware problem - there are no syslog messages about i/o errors. > > What has happened and how can I fix it?
I don’t know what could have caused that, but I think that you can try to sync again, or to use a regular rsync with pgp verification, cf. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base for the configuration to use. -- Alarig
