Saphirus Sage wrote:
This has been a consistent problem on one of my computers, to no avail
thusfar, even after changing sync server settings or redigesting
individual failed ebuilds. In running emerge -uavDN world, it will take
at least an hour to generate a list of packages to be merged, but not
before ouputting a TON of failed digests. Example below.
gentoog4 proc # emerge -uavDN world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
[...]
So, is this just the crying screams of a failing drive, or is there some
other problem at hand here?
Does dmesg say anything about disk I/O errors? Also, try something like
this:
cp -a /usr/portage /tmp/
diff -r /usr/portage /tmp/portage
If the diff claims something differs, then it's pretty certain your disk
or RAM might be failing. For RAM, try memtest86+.
