i tried to emerge perl on my desktop box yesterday and it failed with this error:
error: there appears to be a FILE SYSTEM CORRUPTION. a file that is listed as existing is not capable of being stat'd. if you are using an experimental kernel, please boot into a stable one, force an fsck, and ensure your filesystem is in a sane state. 'shutdown -Fr now' i freaked out, fsck'd the drive and all was well... until i tried to re-emerge it and it failed with the same problem. so i went to the forums and found this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=119635 it was suggested that i dsable "htree" with tune2fs to work around. but here's the kicker. i'm running ext3 on my box @home and the one @work. the one @home borked with the above, but perl-5.8.3 installed just fine this morning on my work box. so what's broken? and should i really start screwing around with something i've never used (tune2fs) or should i just blow everything away and start over (i was going to do this sooner or later anyway). basically, i'm just looking for a better understanding of what's wrong with my computer. can someone shed some light? -- we are linked, ta'lon, our fate is like an image caught in a mirror. if we deny the other, we deny ourselves and we will cease to exist - g'kar, babylon 5 "point of no return" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
