On 04/20/2011 11:35 AM, Dan Cowsill wrote: > Hi list, > > I've been having a strange issue every so often. I'll do a world update > (emerge -uDNav, etc) and that will proceed nicely, installing new > packages and suchlike. I'll then do a little bit of the old emerge -pcv > to check for dangling packages and I will get the following: > > !!! You have no world file. > !!! Proceeding is likely to break your installation. > > Portage will then politely inform me that it needs to remove 190 > packages and I thank FSM I added -p. > > So! Googling that little tidbit produced nothing meaningful. What's > the story? Gremlins? >
Basically. Do you have a world file (/var/lib/portage/world)? If not, why not? Is /var or one of its subdirectories mounted separately? Hard drive going bad? Do you see gremlins anywhere? Permissions on /var/lib/portage should be drwxrws--- root:portage /var/lib/portage/world should be -rw-r--r-- root:portage
