Stuart Howard wrote: > On 24/12/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> First of all - where did my manners go!? ;-( >> >> MARRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE! >> I wish you health, happiness and even more fun with our favorite Gentoo! >> >> ;-)))) >> >> >> On the subject: Yes, yesterday I woke up with a broken root FS after a >> power failure. I did fix the FS with a boot CD I did "emerge -e system". >> Afterwards I booted the system on its own and started "emerge -e world". >> During this my cron did "emerge --sync". Unfortunately I lost my network >> connection and "emerge -e world" stopped on x11-libs/libxklavier-3.0-r1. >> After my connection was restored I had this message from "emerge >> --resume". So I started "emerge -e world" again and now it is complete. >> Also "emerge -DuN world" gives an empty list therefore I consider my >> system to be up-to-date with the current portage. The problem is that >> "emerge --resume" still gives this never seen before (by me) output. >> >> Bottom lines: I want to clear "the resume list" in order to get back to >> the normal behavior of "emerge --resume" >> >> >> P.S. >> >> "emerge --resume --skipfirst" doesn't help - it gives the same message. >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Daniel >> >> >> -- >> [email protected] mailing list >> >> > > Ouch! not so merry at this time of yea. > > Well my understanding of the emerge command is that resume works only > on the current/last call to emerge and since you have been through the > --emptytree all the way you have nothing to resume. > I confess I dont understand the message but I would assume that if you > emege something else then the "last" emege call will be reset and then > hopefully resume will be working next time you need it, not sure how > you can test to see if resume works unless you try and build a package > that is going to fail then try the resume function. > > stu >
Well, I tried "emerge mc" and I hit ctrl-c in the middle of the process. Then "emerge --resume" emerged mc. Now "emerge --resume" gives the same strange message again. ;-) -- Best regards, Daniel -- [email protected] mailing list
