Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:46:04 + (UTC), James wrote: Then don't reboot. Mount another drive somewhere temporary, copy the contents of /var to it, then unmount /var and mount the new drive on /var. Reformat the original filesystem and reverse the process. Earlier I posted the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread James Ausmus
On Jan 23, 2008 8:03 AM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KH gentoo-user at konstantinhansen.de writes: James Ausmus wrote: 1. Check your disk space, make sure it's not full Not a problem... 2. As root, do a chown -R portage:portage /var/cache/edb add the -c to chown -c,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread Dale
James wrote: SNIP Maybe the '/usr/bin/emerge' executable is corrupted. Can I just scp over a copy from another similar arch machine? Any other ideas? James http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:39:51 + (UTC), James wrote: ideas? fsck. If that fails, copy off the data you can and reformat, the filesystem is screwed. -- Neil Bothwick You shall know the truth, and you shall freak. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:33:19 + (UTC), James wrote: dd over ssh everything onto a 8G Compact Flash card that is plugged into another system and then install the CF card into an ide-to-cf socket reboot and then emerge-sync? think this will work? No, because it will copy the corruption

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:08:00 + (UTC), James wrote: No, because it will copy the corruption too. You'll end up with a byte for byte copy of your broken filesystem. If fsck won't fix it, backup, reformat, restore is the only safe fix. If I reboot, I *may* loose the firewall

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread Hal Martin
If you need another firewall in the interim, I would suggest giving IPCop a try. I've been using it as a gateway OS for 5 years now and it's been solid for the entire time. Or, if you'd really rather stick with Gentoo, you could run IPCop on another of your K6 machines until you rebuild the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge error

2008-01-23 Thread Joseph
On 01/23/08 16:39, James wrote: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/net-zope' Well here is the problem: in '/var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage' drwxrwsr-x 2 root portage 1480 Jan 10 13:41 net-www ?? ? ?? ?? net-zope drwxrwsr-x