RE: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry
I now get this message when doing anything with emerge: Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd Does anyone know what this means? Look for a file named -MERGING* in your /var/db/pkg path. I'm going from memory, so it may be something a little different. In any case, it's a file with a - in front. Delete it. -jrh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry
On Saturday 27 December 2003 03:47, John Ross Hunt wrote: I now get this message when doing anything with emerge: Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd Does anyone know what this means? Look for a file named -MERGING* in your /var/db/pkg path. I'm going from memory, so it may be something a little different. In any case, it's a file with a - in front. Delete it. Look up this topic in the archives and on forums. It's been around for a l-o-n-g time. I was miffed by this on a recent install from Stage1. Portage developers usually fix bugs quickly, but this one has hung around much too long. -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry
I now get this message when doing anything with emerge: Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd Does anyone know what this means? -- __ Guy Van Sanden http://unixmafia.port5.com Registered Linux user #249404 - September 1997 __ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry
Which kernel are you using? If you're using the 2.6.0 kernel add to it the devfs support. Merry Xmas! El mié, 24-12-2003 a las 12:55, Guy Van Sanden escribió: I now get this message when doing anything with emerge: Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd Does anyone know what this means? -- - = Human knowledge belongs to the world = - Linux Gentoo PoWeReD Signed by: Cybercar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:56:35 +0100 Cybercar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which kernel are you using? If you're using the 2.6.0 kernel add to it the devfs support. hm? If he's using kernel 2.4.x he should also add devfs support... -- Dennis Freise [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key fingerprint: 2DE8 CCEF 6E20 11D4 3B27 21EC B0BA 1749 D2C8 38ED Get my public key at : http://www.final-frontier.ath.cx/gpg_public_key.txt pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:55:25 +0100 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I now get this message when doing anything with emerge: | | Auto-cleaning packages ... | !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: | /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd | | Does anyone know what this means? It's a harmless little buglet in portage. It's safe to ignore it. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 04:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:55:25 +0100 Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I now get this message when doing anything with emerge: | Auto-cleaning packages ... | | !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: | /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd | | Does anyone know what this means? It's a harmless little buglet in portage. It's safe to ignore it. minorrant Speaking of which, when will this ever be fixed? Every newbie who comes along encounters this. I even got it when reinstalling from Stage1 on a new machine. Even with the instructions in bugzilla, it took several attempts before the problem went away permanently. /minorrant -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry
From: Cybercar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/24 Wed AM 06:56:35 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry Which kernel are you using? If you're using the 2.6.0 kernel add to it the devfs support. Merry Xmas! El mié, 24-12-2003 a las 12:55, Guy Van Sanden escribió: I now get this message when doing anything with emerge: Auto-cleaning packages ... !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd!!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg/*sys-fs/devfsd Does anyone know what this means? -- - = Human knowledge belongs to the world = - Linux Gentoo PoWeReD Signed by: Cybercar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list I, too, have this problem, although I have /dev support built into my kernel. What, then? Bob --***-- 'Esse quam videri.' To be, rather than to appear. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: Invalid db entry
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 07:24:28 -0800 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Speaking of which, when will this ever be fixed? Every newbie who
| comes along encounters this. I even got it when reinstalling from
| Stage1 on a new machine. Even with the instructions in bugzilla, it
| took several attempts before the problem went away permanently.
Speaking entirely from a vague memory of a conversation with carpaski on
irc that I think happened ('cos bugzilla's not loving me right now),
it's already fixed in everything after the current stable-on-x86
portage. But then, someone might have thrown the proverbial spork into
the works...
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Ciaran McCreesh
Mail:ciaranm at gentoo.org
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