Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world
On 7/24/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: What is my best course of action at this point? The machine booted fine so I could start over. I also saved an old email from Zac Medico that suggested a command FEATURES=keepwork emerge --resume Would this be a good thing to do? I wouldn't recommend the FEATURES=keepwork anymore because there's no guarantee that the build will resume properly. It's safest to simply use --resume as suggested by Dale. Zac Thanks you guys. I did the emerge --resume and things seem to have completed correctly. Now if I could just get the machine to work properly I'd be in heaven! ;-) Cheers all, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world
Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/24/06, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: What is my best course of action at this point? The machine booted fine so I could start over. I also saved an old email from Zac Medico that suggested a command FEATURES=keepwork emerge --resume Would this be a good thing to do? I wouldn't recommend the FEATURES=keepwork anymore because there's no guarantee that the build will resume properly. It's safest to simply use --resume as suggested by Dale. Zac Thanks you guys. I did the emerge --resume and things seem to have completed correctly. Now if I could just get the machine to work properly I'd be in heaven! ;-) Cheers all, Mark Keep in mind that when it is compiling that it is done in a temporary location. After the compile is done, then it copies it over. Now if it dies while it was copying to it's place to actually run, usually /, then there could be problems. Unless it was changed, compiling takes place in /var/tmp/portage. Someone correct me if I am wrong. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world
On 7/25/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Now if I could just get the machine to work properly I'd be in heaven! ;-) Cheers all, Mark Keep in mind that when it is compiling that it is done in a temporary location. After the compile is done, then it copies it over. Now if it dies while it was copying to it's place to actually run, usually /, then there could be problems. Unless it was changed, compiling takes place in /var/tmp/portage. Someone correct me if I am wrong. Dale Dale, Sorry. My bad for making such an off-hand comment. The emerge process worked completely correctly and everything was moved to the right place. None of that is a problem. The problem I'm having is that I have two machines with identical hardware. (Pundit-R's). They were both running as MythTV frontend only boxes using an old kernel, old ati-driver and old MythTV. One I rebuilt from scratch instead of updating. It works perfectly. The second I updated because it also serves as an NFS file server and I didn't want to take it off line for very long. For some reason on the second machine ati-drivers won't load. That's the problem I was alluding to earlier. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world
Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/25/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: SNIP Now if I could just get the machine to work properly I'd be in heaven! ;-) Cheers all, Mark Keep in mind that when it is compiling that it is done in a temporary location. After the compile is done, then it copies it over. Now if it dies while it was copying to it's place to actually run, usually /, then there could be problems. Unless it was changed, compiling takes place in /var/tmp/portage. Someone correct me if I am wrong. Dale Dale, Sorry. My bad for making such an off-hand comment. The emerge process worked completely correctly and everything was moved to the right place. None of that is a problem. snip Cheers, Mark That was for future reference. If in the future you are seeing it copy the install over and power fails, then you may need to re-emerge it and be ready for issues. I'm not really sure what those would be though. It may work just fine, it may not. I'm bad at looking to far ahead. My wife has noticed that too. :\ Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: That was for future reference. If in the future you are seeing it copy the install over and power fails, then you may need to re-emerge it and be ready for issues. I'm not really sure what those would be though. It may work just fine, it may not. I'm bad at looking to far ahead. My wife has noticed that too. :\ This is an important detail and you're right to be concerned about it. However, AFAIK, portage handles this pretty well. You should receive some type of notice about an incomplete merge if a merge has been interrupted. Zac -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFExpbh/ejvha5XGaMRAn/UAJ0R3bD2iI0ugYobM7HD8HGG1GmslgCg57mB XpLiecgbcVrK5ZFD79slMpI= =mMqZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, A hot summer day blew the power transformer in my backyard. One of my MythTV frontends was about 2/3 of the way through an emerge --emptytree world at the time: 1153780822: === (178 of 280) Post-Build Cleaning (x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.1.0::/usr/portage/x11-proto/scrnsaverproto/scrnsaverproto-1.1.0.ebuild) 1153780822: ::: completed emerge (178 of 280) x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.1.0 to / 1153780822: emerge (179 of 280) x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7 to / 1153780822: === (179 of 280) Cleaning (x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7::/usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7.ebuild) 1153780822: === (179 of 280) Compiling/Merging (x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7::/usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.0.2-r7.ebuild) 1153781845: *** terminating. What is my best course of action at this point? The machine booted fine so I could start over. I also saved an old email from Zac Medico that suggested a command FEATURES=keepwork emerge --resume Would this be a good thing to do? There are currently 5 files to be dealt with under etc-update. Should I do those first? Thanks, Mark Just type in emerge --resume and it should carry on normally. It will start over with the last package that was not completed though. You can go ahead and run etc-update if you want. Should not matter but never hurts either. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Power failure in the middle of emerge --emptytree world
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: What is my best course of action at this point? The machine booted fine so I could start over. I also saved an old email from Zac Medico that suggested a command FEATURES=keepwork emerge --resume Would this be a good thing to do? I wouldn't recommend the FEATURES=keepwork anymore because there's no guarantee that the build will resume properly. It's safest to simply use --resume as suggested by Dale. Zac -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFExZfc/ejvha5XGaMRAuitAJ4tUoj5p+kzJb8mqZc2Riq4cQ6LqwCfb00l 3jJlkkhbxLKCva5R6mOR2yc= =ZQxl -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
