On Thursday, 28 February 2019 15:47:41 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > In general it is usually simplest to just remove /usr/portage anytime > you change the sync settings. At least until portage gets smarter > about it.
That works well on a sufficiently powerful box; it only took - oh, I don't know - maybe a couple of minutes on this workstation. On my little Atom box, though, it takes 75 minutes. [OT] Evidence is mounting that the Atom box is in terminal decline. I get things like batches of files in the portage tree changing owner, and then when I correct that, long lists of supposedly locally changed ebuilds preventing syncing. And when I boot weekly into its little rescue system to backup the main system, the root filesystem remounts itself read-only while tar is running. Smartd recognises the SSD and runs daily tests, but reports no errors. No amount of wiping and reinstalling has helped so far. -- Regards, Peter.
