On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 00:14:56 +0100, [email protected] wrote: > qsearch <item> > search: Updating ebuild metacache ... > search: initialize_flat(): opening > '/usr/portage/metadata/cache/.metadata.x' failed: Permission denied > search: initialize_flat(): You should run this command as root: q -m
The message is telling you which command to run, although it is short and you may have missed it q -m > What kills the metadatabase every time and how can I fix that? What I > am doing wrong here ? You probably updated portage-utils and /etc/portage/postsync.d/q-reinitialize no longer has the execute bit set. chmod +x it as instructed in the elog message from the portage-utils emerge. -- Neil Bothwick Windows Error #01: No error... ...yet.
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