Volker Armin Hemmann <[email protected]> [09-12-13 13:40]:
> On Sonntag 13 Dezember 2009, [email protected] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > it seems, something has screwed up my system.
> >
> > The symptoms are: Updateing a certain package with emerge (which
> > successfully compile and install that package) has no effect.
> > Next time exactly the same package is reported again as to be
> > updated.
> >
> > And qsearch reports that my metadatabase has gone with the wind
> > and I have to do a 'w -m' as root, which helps for that moment,
> > but next it is again not present. I think (read:dont know for sure)
> > that the
> > eix-sync && emerge -pv --verbose --update --deep world
> > has "killed" it.
> >
> > Unfortunately I am not that deeply involved in the internal
> > data handling of the gentoo package manager to have an idea
> > what is going wrong here.
> >
> > What can I do to fix this problem ?
> >
> > Kind regards and have a nice weekend!
> > mcc
> >
>
> fsck your partition containing /var.
>
Hi,
as soon I do the command sequence described above, qsearch fails with
opening '/usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x' failed: Permission denied
search: initialize_flat(): You should run this command as root: q -m
and an
sudo ls /usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x
fails with
ls: cannot access /usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x: No such file or
directory
There is no symlink to /var and subfolders as far as I can see...
What part/file is on /var/... which gets corrupted in case of an
filesystem damage ?
