Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

2005-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 18:13:58 -0500, Denis wrote: Running df shows that /usr partition is at 18% use. However, running du gives more input/output errors... Either your filesystem or your disk is screwed, backup NOW! -- Neil Bothwick Fire at will... NO WORF! Not Commander Riker!

[gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

2005-11-03 Thread Denis
So last night I do emerge sync, and all of a sudden portage is giving me a whole lot of I/O errors right before emerge sync is completed, like stat app-misc/esekeyd : Input/output error rsync: recv_generator: mkdir app-misc/esekeyd/files: Input/output error (2) stat app-misc/esekeyd/files :

Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

2005-11-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 09:51:51 -0500, Denis wrote: So last night I do emerge sync, and all of a sudden portage is giving me a whole lot of I/O errors right before emerge sync is completed, Getting the obvious out of the way first, do you have free space on /usr/portage? -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

2005-11-03 Thread brullo nulla
Looks like your hard drive has something bad, bad, bad. Try to run the badblocks utility, maybe not from Gentoo but from a live-cd. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

2005-11-03 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
brullo nulla wrote: Looks like your hard drive has something bad, bad, bad. Try to run the badblocks utility, maybe not from Gentoo but from a live-cd. m. Even then, you might get the same errors. Looks like a hard disk failure to me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

2005-11-03 Thread Denis
Getting the obvious out of the way first, do you have free space on /usr/portage? Neil - I doubt that could be a problem. I have 20 GB allocated to /usr partition alone! I think portage couldn't have filled all that up - I have had no problems of the sort on other machines, where my /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

2005-11-03 Thread b.n.
I think hard drive failure is a possibility, although it's kind of funny that the failure should be limited to just that /usr partition! Or does that happen sometimes? I'll try badblocks and see what I get. Well, if you have something rotting leading to bad blocks, it can be easily limited

Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

2005-11-03 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
I think hard drive failure is a possibility, although it's kind of funny that the failure should be limited to just that /usr partition! Or does that happen sometimes? I'll try badblocks and see what I get. My dear fellow, I speak from experience. Just last month a hard disk (IDE) of mine

Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

2005-11-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:39:28 -0500, Denis wrote: Getting the obvious out of the way first, do you have free space on /usr/portage? Neil - I doubt that could be a problem. I have 20 GB allocated to /usr partition alone! I think portage couldn't have filled all that up It could if you

Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

2005-11-03 Thread Denis
Running df shows that /usr partition is at 18% use. However, running du gives more input/output errors... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!

2005-11-03 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 03 November 2005 15:13, Denis wrote: Running df shows that /usr partition is at 18% use. However, running du gives more input/output errors... First, I would back up all your data immediately. You have filesystem corruption or hardware failure. And if you have hardware failure, you