I notice that when it boots there is a message about "can't calculate dependencies". The system works well with no errors (I can cd, ls, edit files) until I run emerge -u --deep world -p. Then I get something about updates for xQ 2002 where x is a number. After this I can still do things. Howver, if I do something like emerge qt (which I need to update) I get the i/o errors with /var/portage and then I get i/o errors with everything!
> On Friday 08 August 2003 01:30, you wrote: > > The system did a recovery at the start of one of the boots but tomorrow > > I'll try booting from the LiveCD and do an xfs_repair and see what > > happens. I have a SCSI RAID array with a hot spare and it didn't kick in > > so the drives should be okay. > > the stupid thing: almost everything can cause io-errors. > bugs > bad cable > bad psu > bad harddrive > bad harddrive on the same cable > pci-probs > > I had all of them, so I know that a harddisk problem does not need to a > genuine harddisk-defect. > > So hunting them is annoying. > > If xfs_repair barfs, don't panic, try to get a managment tool from the > vendor. If it does not find anything, fine, but if there are real problems, > support is always a lot of 'nicer' when you can hit them with the output of > the test-prog. > > Gl�ck Auf, > Volker -- Brett I. Holcomb AKA Grunt <>< -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
