Re: [gentoo-user] Update portage cache ... horribly slow

[Dunc]

Paweł Madej wrote:

 Allan Spagnol Comar wrote:

 This cache is used to resolve all packages you want to update,install
 or remove from your box; if you turn off this cache you would need to
 do the same action to every emerge option; I believe that is better to
 let it do just when updating portage tree  :)

 Holpe it helps, Allan


 Thx for fast answer.

 Ok I'll leave it as is, but maybe is there any way too speedup it? It
 runs on my P3 800 / HDD 5400 rpm more that 10 minutes.

 Or it is working on every computer so slowly?

 Greets
 Paweł

That sounds a bit slow, but not massively so, it takes a long time.

You could CRON your emerge sync to happen in the middle of the night,
and then you won't have to watch it. :-)

For something you should only do once a day, 10 minutes isn't that bad
though.

Cheers,

Dunc



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[gentoo-user] Recent booting problems

[Dunc]

Hi,

i rebooted my firewall yesterday, and it stopped just after the initrd,
when trying to fsck the root filesystem, because it had failed to 
remount the / filesystem read-only because it was busy, and thus fsck
was warning about checking a live filesystem

i rebooted from livecd, and fsck'ed my partitions manually, to make sure
they were ok, and then rebooted and said yes to fsck the live FS, and it
carried on and booted ok

i suspected i had baselayout out of sync or some such, so did emerge
sync and then upgraded baselayout.

that didn't help, so i tried emerge -e system, and also upgrade  of
world, and then i also rebuilt my initrd with genkernel, in case
something had changed in there.

still the same, so now i'm quite stuck

anyone else had this recently?

my kernels and ramdisk are always built with genkernel, and as i say
above i'm bang up to date now

any help greatly appreciated

cheers,

Dunc
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[gentoo-user] recent booting problems

[Dunc]

Hi,

i rebooted my firewall yesterday, and it stopped just after the initrd,
when trying to fsck the root filesystem, because it had failed to 
remount the / filesystem read-only because it was busy, and thus fsck
was warning about checking a live filesystem

i rebooted from livecd, and fsck'ed my partitions manually, to make sure
they were ok, and then rebooted and said yes to fsck the live FS, and it
carried on and booted ok

i suspected i had baselayout out of sync or some such, so did emerge
sync and then upgraded baselayout.

that didn't help, so i tried emerge -e system, and also upgrade  of
world, and then i also rebuilt my initrd with genkernel, in case
something had changed in there.

still the same, so now i'm quite stuck

anyone else had this recently?

my kernels and ramdisk are always built with genkernel, and as i say
above i'm bang up to date now

any help greatly appreciated

cheers,

Dunc

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