Re: [gentoo-user] Error message for several ebuilds when updating world.
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 01:31:45AM -0600, Dale wrote http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6878530.html?sid=924b3c65e5584c4dc81672583d97b85d#6878530 You need more ram, swap space or maybe drive space for the portage work directory. Basically, it's running out of space somewhere. Thanks for the pointer. I think I've figured it it out now. When I set up my laptop, I copied most of /etc/make.conf verbatim from my desktop, including the line... PORTAGE_TMPFS=/dev/shm That works just fine on my desktop with 8 gigs of ram. Unfortunately, my laptop only has 4 gigs, so that doesn't work quite so well. I've changed that line to... PORTAGE_TMPFS=/tmp Builds will be slower, no doubt. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Error message for several ebuilds when updating world.
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 01:31:45AM -0600, Dale wrote http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6878530.html?sid=924b3c65e5584c4dc81672583d97b85d#6878530 You need more ram, swap space or maybe drive space for the portage work directory. Basically, it's running out of space somewhere. Thanks for the pointer. I think I've figured it it out now. When I set up my laptop, I copied most of /etc/make.conf verbatim from my desktop, including the line... PORTAGE_TMPFS=/dev/shm That works just fine on my desktop with 8 gigs of ram. Unfortunately, my laptop only has 4 gigs, so that doesn't work quite so well. I've changed that line to... PORTAGE_TMPFS=/tmp Builds will be slower, no doubt. I put the portage work directory on tmpfs in ram and I can't tell much difference. When I tested it, having portage's work directory on tmpfs was actually a bit slower, just by a few seconds tho. So, having it on a drive doesn't seem to matter much. I guess drives are pretty fast nowadays. The funny thing, I have to leave mine on tmpfs because when I update LOo, I don't have enough space on /var. I have enough ram tho. lol Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
Re: [gentoo-user] Error message for several ebuilds when updating world.
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 02:27:04PM -0600, Dale wrote The funny thing, I have to leave mine on tmpfs because when I update LOo, I don't have enough space on /var. I have enough ram tho. lol I know I have enough diskspace. See my reply to Pandu in the Partitioning strategy...? thread. * 250 megabyte / partition (ext2fs) * 4 gigs of swap * the rest of the drive is one large reiserfs partition The power of LVM, without the pain. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Error message for several ebuilds when updating world.
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:58:56 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: * the rest of the drive is one large reiserfs partition The power of LVM, without the pain. Hardly. For instance, a runaway program filling logfiles will fill up everything, you can't isolate, for example, personal and system data. I don't see how you have use your method with multiple drives without serious kludging. LVM is about a lot more than keeping everything on one partition. -- Neil Bothwick Monday is the root of all evil! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Error message for several ebuilds when updating world.
I just ran a sync and update on my laptop. The builds for... gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.21 x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.24.0-r1 gnome-base/librsvg-2.34.1-r1 www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1 app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.04-r4 app-office/abiword-2.8.6-r1 ...all came up with the same warning in /var/log/portage/elog WARN: prepare We've already been run in this tree; you should avoid this if possible (perhaps by filing a bug) Any ideas what this is all about? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Error message for several ebuilds when updating world.
waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I just ran a sync and update on my laptop. The builds for... gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.21 x11-libs/gdk-pixbuf-2.24.0-r1 gnome-base/librsvg-2.34.1-r1 www-client/firefox-7.0.1-r1 app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.04-r4 app-office/abiword-2.8.6-r1 ...all came up with the same warning in /var/log/portage/elog WARN: prepare We've already been run in this tree; you should avoid this if possible (perhaps by filing a bug) Any ideas what this is all about? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6878530.html?sid=924b3c65e5584c4dc81672583d97b85d#6878530 You need more ram, swap space or maybe drive space for the portage work directory. Basically, it's running out of space somewhere. Look at top maybe and see what it says then df to see if a partition is full or really close to it. Keep in mind, usage may drop after it fails and does a little cleaning up. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
