[gentoo-user] portage broken

2006-09-14 Thread Frank Baumeister
Hello, whenever I run emerge it aborts with the following error message: localhost # emerge --sync Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2006 (Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.) .='update pass' *='binary update' @='/var/db move'

Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken

2006-09-14 Thread Frank Baumeister
On Thursday 14 September 2006 14:48, Daniel Iliev wrote: Try this: rm /usr/portage/metadata/timestamp.chk emerge --sync Unfortunately that didn't fix the problem. Regards Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken

2006-09-14 Thread Frank Baumeister
On Thursday 14 September 2006 18:17, Drew wrote: Hi Frank, Daniel's solution was one suggested in an earlier thread. The other was to delete your portage tree and reinstall it via web-rsync followed by a regular sync. The problem has been documented and the patch is supposed to work it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Faulty IDE ribbon?

2005-09-05 Thread Frank Baumeister
On Sunday 04 September 2005 15:39, Mick wrote: Just checking before I buy a new ribbon, that there is nothing more sinister happening with my secondary IDE controller. Suddenly and with no activity on my secondary IDE controller there's a noise as if my /dev/hdc (8G ATA drive) and /dev/hdd