[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: If I reboot, I *may* loose the firewall completely, depending on what the drive does. The only safe thing is to build another firewall before rebooting the current firewall (then see if fsck will fix it)... Then don't reboot. Mount another drive somewhere temporary, copy the contents of /var to it, then unmount /var and mount the new drive on /var. Reformat the original filesystem and reverse the process. Earlier I posted the partitions: /dev/hda3 18G 2.1G 16G 12% / udev 125M 2.6M 123M 3% /dev shm 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 393M 46M 347M 12% /boot since /var is part of / (on the same partition) will this still work? Either way, once I build a new firewall, I'm going to copy it to CF and be done with these old ide drives. Use a suitable filesystem, or the flash memory will die very quickly, especially if you put /var on it. What would be the best file system to use on said CF HD to extend the life? I usually use the reiserfs on boot and root (simple partioning scheme). But, I'm open to suggestions here. The other thing I'm going to do is keep a master (k6) system with a good HD for compiling updates and start distributing binaries to all of the other k6 (586) firewalls That should greatly help extend the life too. (any ideas on the caveats of this scheme are most welcome). James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:46:04 + (UTC), James wrote: Then don't reboot. Mount another drive somewhere temporary, copy the contents of /var to it, then unmount /var and mount the new drive on /var. Reformat the original filesystem and reverse the process. Earlier I posted the partitions: /dev/hda3 18G 2.1G 16G 12% / udev 125M 2.6M 123M 3% /dev shm 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 393M 46M 347M 12% /boot since /var is part of / (on the same partition) will this still work? No, another reason to keep /var, and as much else as possible, away from /. Use a suitable filesystem, or the flash memory will die very quickly, especially if you put /var on it. What would be the best file system to use on said CF HD to extend the life? I usually use the reiserfs on boot and root (simple partioning scheme). But, I'm open to suggestions here. JFFS2, or budget on replacing the cards every couple of months. -- Neil Bothwick First Law of Laboratory Work: Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: JFFS2, or budget on replacing the cards every couple of months. Thanks to everyone that helps, thx Neil, James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
KH gentoo-user at konstantinhansen.de writes: James Ausmus wrote: 1. Check your disk space, make sure it's not full Not a problem... 2. As root, do a chown -R portage:portage /var/cache/edb add the -c to chown -c, --changes like verbose but report only when a change is made Many of the files were owned by root:portage Now they are owned by portage:portage, but that did not fix the error: calculating world dependencies \Traceback (most recent call last) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 6518, in ? retval = emerge_main() File /usr/bin/emerge, line 6512, in emerge_main myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 5813, in action_build mydepgraph = depgraph(settings, trees, myopts, myparams, spinner) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 1174, in __init__ vardb.aux_get(pkg, self._mydbapi_keys File /usr/bin/emerge, line 948, in _aux_get_wrapper self._portdb.aux_get(pkg, self._portdb_keys))) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py, line 6552, in aux_get try: del self.auxdb[mylocation][mycpv] File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/template.py, line 82, in __delitem__ self._delitem(cpv) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py, line 98, in _delitem raise cache_errors.CacheCorruption(cpv, e) cache.cache_errors.CacheCorruption: sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.10-r5 is corrupt:[Errno 13] Permission denied: var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.10-r5' The files that had their permissions changed were: changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-lpd-20070329' to portage:portage changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-lpd-20070928' to portage:portage changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-cups-20070329' to portage:portage changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-cups-20070928' to portage:portage snip changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-screen-20070329' to portage:portage changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-screen-20070928' to portage:portage chown: cannot access var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-bind-20050408': Permission denied changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-bind-20050626' to portage:portage chown: cannot access var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-bind-20061114': Permission denied changed ownership of var/cache/edb/dep/usr/ portage/sec-policy/selinux-bind-20070329' to portage:portage Maybe the '/usr/bin/emerge' executable is corrupted. Can I just scp over a copy from another similar arch machine? Any other ideas? James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
On Jan 23, 2008 8:03 AM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KH gentoo-user at konstantinhansen.de writes: James Ausmus wrote: 1. Check your disk space, make sure it's not full Not a problem... 2. As root, do a chown -R portage:portage /var/cache/edb add the -c to chown -c, --changes like verbose but report only when a change is made Many of the files were owned by root:portage Now they are owned by portage:portage, but that did not fix the error: snip OK, try doing: emerge --metadata Also, have you done a emerge --sync since this started? Sounds like it might just be a cache corruption - if the cache was corrupted during the rsync process in an emerge--sync, then just doing a emerge --metadata won't help, but if was just corrupted on disk (in the /var/cache/edb dir), then a emerge --metadata might do it. HTH- James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
James Ausmus james.ausmus at gmail.com writes: OK, try doing: emerge --metadata Also, have you done a emerge --sync since this started? Sounds like it might just be a cache corruption - if the cache was corrupted during the rsync process in an emerge--sync, then just doing a emerge --metadata won't help, but if was just corrupted on disk (in the /var/cache/edb dir), then a emerge --metadata might do it. 'emerge' sync almost ran to completion: Number of files: 131430 Number of files transferred: 270 Total file size: 175763417 bytes Total transferred file size: 1202283 bytes Literal data: 1202283 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 3192393 File list generation time: 4.092 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 8817 Total bytes received: 4410697 sent 8817 bytes received 4410697 bytes 34393.11 bytes/sec total size is 175763417 speedup is 39.77 Updating Portage cache: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 6518, in ? retval = emerge_main() File /usr/bin/emerge, line 6473, in emerge_main action_sync(settings, trees, mtimedb, myopts, myaction) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 5010, in action_sync action_metadata(settings, portdb, myopts) File /usr/bin/emerge, line 5104, in action_metadata eclass_cache=ec, verbose_instance=noise_maker) File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/util.py, line 21, in mirror_cache dead_nodes = set(trg_cache) File /usr/lib/python2.4/sets.py, line 429, in __init__ self._update(iterable) File /usr/lib/python2.4/sets.py, line 383, in _update for element in iterable: File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py, line 122, in __iter__ st = os.lstat(p) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-zope' ideas? James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
James wrote: SNIP Maybe the '/usr/bin/emerge' executable is corrupted. Can I just scp over a copy from another similar arch machine? Any other ideas? James http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: James Ausmus james.ausmus at gmail.com writes: File /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/flat_hash.py, line 122, in __iter__ st = os.lstat(p) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-zope' Well here is the problem: in '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage' drwxrwsr-x 2 root portage 1480 Jan 10 13:41 net-www ?? ? ?? ?? net-zope drwxrwsr-x 2 root portage 3024 Jan 22 22:29 perl-core But I cannot remove it? rm -rf ./net-zope rm: cannot remove `./net-zope': Permission denied cp /dev/null net-zope cp: accessing `net-zope': Permission denied rmdir net-zope rmdir: net-zope: Permission denied chown root:portage net-zope chown: cannot access `net-zope': Permission denied ideas? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:39:51 + (UTC), James wrote: ideas? fsck. If that fails, copy off the data you can and reformat, the filesystem is screwed. -- Neil Bothwick You shall know the truth, and you shall freak. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: ideas? fsck. If that fails, copy off the data you can and reformat, the filesystem is screwed. Roger that. Here's an idea, since it's a minimal firewall, that I'm currently using, and scp works. dd over ssh everything onto a 8G Compact Flash card that is plugged into another system and then install the CF card into an ide-to-cf socket reboot and then emerge-sync? think this will work? The partions are simple on the existing firewall: /dev/hda3 18G 2.1G 16G 12% / udev 125M 2.6M 123M 3% /dev shm 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 393M 46M 347M 12% /boot Next format the CF card similar to the above scheme. not sure exactly how to run dd over ssh any (syntax) ideas? Then install CF disk into similar arch machine (amd k6)and boot it up. Since I have quite a few of these machine and several friends running on similar firewalls, it's time I start using CF drvies and develop a procedure to replicate the firewalls, without 3 days of install, configuring and compiling. Do you think this will work? Did I miss any steps? I do not want to reboot until I get an second firewall working. James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:33:19 + (UTC), James wrote: dd over ssh everything onto a 8G Compact Flash card that is plugged into another system and then install the CF card into an ide-to-cf socket reboot and then emerge-sync? think this will work? No, because it will copy the corruption too. You'll end up with a byte for byte copy of your broken filesystem. If fsck won't fix it, backup, reformat, restore is the only safe fix. -- Neil Bothwick To whom the gods destroy, they first teach Windows... signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: dd over ssh everything onto a 8G Compact Flash card that is plugged into another system and then install the CF card into an ide-to-cf socket reboot and then emerge-sync? think this will work? No, because it will copy the corruption too. You'll end up with a byte for byte copy of your broken filesystem. If fsck won't fix it, backup, reformat, restore is the only safe fix. If I reboot, I *may* loose the firewall completely, depending on what the drive does. The only safe thing is to build another firewall before rebooting the current firewall (then see if fsck will fix it)... Either way, once I build a new firewall, I'm going to copy it to CF and be done with these old ide drives. thx James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:08:00 + (UTC), James wrote: No, because it will copy the corruption too. You'll end up with a byte for byte copy of your broken filesystem. If fsck won't fix it, backup, reformat, restore is the only safe fix. If I reboot, I *may* loose the firewall completely, depending on what the drive does. The only safe thing is to build another firewall before rebooting the current firewall (then see if fsck will fix it)... Then don't reboot. Mount another drive somewhere temporary, copy the contents of /var to it, then unmount /var and mount the new drive on /var. Reformat the original filesystem and reverse the process. Either way, once I build a new firewall, I'm going to copy it to CF and be done with these old ide drives. Use a suitable filesystem, or the flash memory will die very quickly, especially if you put /var on it. -- Neil Bothwick New Intel opcode #007 PUKE: Put unmeaningful keywords everywhere signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
If you need another firewall in the interim, I would suggest giving IPCop a try. I've been using it as a gateway OS for 5 years now and it's been solid for the entire time. Or, if you'd really rather stick with Gentoo, you could run IPCop on another of your K6 machines until you rebuild the Gentoo one. -Hal Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:08:00 + (UTC), James wrote: No, because it will copy the corruption too. You'll end up with a byte for byte copy of your broken filesystem. If fsck won't fix it, backup, reformat, restore is the only safe fix. If I reboot, I *may* loose the firewall completely, depending on what the drive does. The only safe thing is to build another firewall before rebooting the current firewall (then see if fsck will fix it)... Then don't reboot. Mount another drive somewhere temporary, copy the contents of /var to it, then unmount /var and mount the new drive on /var. Reformat the original filesystem and reverse the process. Either way, once I build a new firewall, I'm going to copy it to CF and be done with these old ide drives. Use a suitable filesystem, or the flash memory will die very quickly, especially if you put /var on it. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error
On 01/23/08 16:39, James wrote: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-zope' Well here is the problem: in '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage' drwxrwsr-x 2 root portage 1480 Jan 10 13:41 net-www ?? ? ?? ?? net-zope drwxrwsr-x 2 root portage 3024 Jan 22 22:29 perl-core But I cannot remove it? rm -rf ./net-zope rm: cannot remove `./net-zope': Permission denied cp /dev/null net-zope cp: accessing `net-zope': Permission denied rmdir net-zope rmdir: net-zope: Permission denied chown root:portage net-zope chown: cannot access `net-zope': Permission denied ideas? Try booting from Live Gentoo CD (or Knopix) mount the partition and delete that file. -- #Joseph GPG KeyID: ED0E1FB7 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
