Johnny
Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi, I apologize if someone has possibly commented on this already, > but Comcast went down for an hour or so and I haven't seen much > mail yet. As I did not specifically ask about this earlier I will > now. Thanks in advance. > > I have been trying to do an emerge -U world this morning. > Unfortunately it has created file system problems 3 times. Now when > I do it I get a message about an incomplete emerge: > > Wizard root # emerge -Up world > >>>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options. >>>> > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! INCOMPLETE MERGE: > /var/db/pkg/dev-lang/-MERGING-perl-5.8.0-r12 [ebuild N ] > dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r9 > [2.3.2-r8] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4 > [2.14.90.0.7] > > Wizard root # > > I do see these incomplete emerge files: > > Wizard root # ls -l /var/db/pkg/dev-lang/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 > 4096 Jan 18 09:22 -MERGING-perl-5.8.0-r12 -rw-r----- 1 0 Jan > 18 07:07 -MERGING-perl-5.8.0-r12.portage_lockfile > > I'm not clear how to proceed. Is my emerge database now messed up? > If I attempt to continue at this point the ebuild seems to correput > my file system. (It's happened 3 times now.) > > I've heard about rebuilding the portage database, but I haven't > found instructions yet. > > Looking for instructions. > > Thanks, Mark > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >
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