On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> OK, this is too funny. I'm sitting here in the dark browsing around on >> my home machine while I'm doing an eix-sync. I have my legs crossed, >> sitting in my chair that swivels, and guess what...my big toe is at >> __exactly__ the height of the main power button on my APC UPS, and >> darn if I don't hit it and power is gone! >> >> The machine booted and came back up with no obvious problems but when >> I tried to continue with the eix-sync I get some pretty messed up >> messages, ala: >> >> Can't read cache file >> /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success >> Reading category 146|154 ( 94%): x11-libs .. >> Can't read cache file >> /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success >> Reading category 146|154 ( 94%): x11-libs .. >> Can't read cache file >> /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success >> Reading category 146|154 ( 94%): x11-libs .. >> Can't read cache file >> /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success >> Reading category 146|154 ( 94%): x11-libs .. >> Can't read cache file >> /usr/portage/metadata/cache/x11-libs/pixman-0.18.4: Success >> Reading category 154|154 (100%) Finished >> >> I tried removing the timestamp file to get it to sync again but that >> didn't fix it. >> >> How does a big-toe guy regenerate the database emerge --sync normally >> keeps for my machine? >> >> Too funny! (Hey - at least I provided a laugh I hope!) :-))) >> >> - Mark >> >> > > I think this will help: > > emerge-webrsync > > That should download the complete tree. It will be a pretty good size file > tho just in case you have dial-up or some other slow connection. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > P. S. Careful with the toe next time. lol
Thanks Dale, and to Andrea also. On my machine I'm not finding a man page on emerge-webrsync so I'm a bit hesitant to run it until I find maybe some information on line. Andrea's emerge --metadata command is one thing I thought about last night, along with maybe --regen, but decided it wasn't worth messing things up. I think maybe the removal of eix completely, then removal of the cache database, and then re-emerging eix and starting clean with that program might be the safest first step, assuming that I don't find a problem with emerge itself this evening. Thanks for the ideas. Cheers, Mark
